SUSTENANCE FUND.
QUEENSLAND UNEMPLOYED. CONTRIBUTIONS INCREASED. BRISBANE, May 3. The Minister of Labour (Mr. Gledson) has announced that at a special meeting of the Unemployed Workers' Council, called to deal with the financial position of the Unemployed Sustenance Fund, it was found that owing to an abnormal amount of unemployment there had been a big drain on the fund during the last four months. There had been paid out £80,000 more than had been received into the fund. As reserves were reaching a dangerous level, he said, it had been decided by the council that from July 1 next payments to the sustenance fund should temporarily be increased. A regulation would be made under which payments to the fund by the employer, employee, and Government would be increased from 3d to 4d a week, and from id to Id a day in respect of casual employees. It was hoped by this increase to be able to continue present payments of sustenance money. ■ • - ■ .^^
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 109, 11 May 1927, Page 17
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