ADJOURNING FOR WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 8

ADJOURNING FOR WEEK.

UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD. AWAITING FURTHER FUNDS. POSITION OF VARIOUS SCHEMES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Unemployment Board will adjourn for a week" from" to-morrow. The result of the decision of the Government, as announced by the Prime Minister, to finance the scheme in the interim is that more than 30,000 men who otherwise would have been left without work will be kept in employment for the present. The Unemployment Board cannot undertake any further . commitments until more money has been placed at its disposal by Parliament. It is estimated that about £00,000 will be required to finance No. 5 scheme and incidental work within the next ten days, and the Prime Minister, first of all, will have to ask Parliament to sanction that expenditure. It is probable that sanction will be given without much demur. It is understood that the men working on farm lands under schemes 4A and 4B will remain in employment. The board at present is financing the employment of 5327 men on farm lands. There are G207 men working under schemes 4A and 48, and work is being found for 400' men by the Native Trust Department and for 220 by the Lands Department. In addition it is estimated by the board that there are at least 1500 men engaged in drainage work under No. 5 scheme in various parts of the country. Schemes 4A and 4B are regarded as of more than- ordinary value by the board, in that the men are engaged in what will prove reproductive employment. Farm labour is subsidised under scheme 4A, which had absorbed 5004 men, of whom 4318 were single, up to June 8. Subsidies paid' under this scheme up to that date amounted'to £73,998. A total Of 247 contracts, involving 003 men; had been let under scheme 4B up to' June' 0, and subsidies approved amounted' to £6547. Subsidies have also been" paid'to the Native Trust Department foehableit to employ men on land development 'Work.