£50,000 A WEEK.
COST OF NO. 5 SCHEME.
REVENUE ONLY £1.200.000 A YEAR. (Bv Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. No. 5 scheme was going, to cost £30,000 a week. That meant an expenditure of £2,450,000 a year, but all they received by wav of levy was £600.000, or, with the Government subsidy, £1,200,000. He did not expect people to live on 18/ a week, but the idea of the scheme was to provide everybody with at least some money to tide them over until they could get jobs. This plain statement wa9 made by the Minister of Labour and chairman of theUnemployment Board, the Hon. S. G. Smith, this afternoon, in reply to a deputation of six of the unemployed, spokesmen of the larger number who had come into conflict with the police at Parliament House gates earlier in the day. Members of the deputation: Where are the jobs? Mr. Smith: There are some to be found. Voices: Not in New Zealand. Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., interjected that the City Council had dismissed 40 men last Tuesday. Mr. Smith said he was not sure that the employers of New Zealand realised the seriousness of the position. Mr. McKeen: Everybody is talking economy. That is the trouble. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 9
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