UNFIT UNEMPLOYED.
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY ? SUSTENANCE PAYMENTS URGED. One of the questions the Hospital Board is deciding this afternoon is its attitude towards the announcement of the Minister of Employment that where unemployed men are unfit to undertake the work assigned the responsibility will be with the Hospital Board in all cases where other •work cannot be provided. "There is only one attitude the board can take and that is to fight the proposal," said Mr. M. J. Savage, a member pf the board, this afternoon. The only practical way for the Government to get out of the difficulty, he declared, was to give effect to the provisions of the 1930 legislation for the payment of sustenance allowances to the men who could not be provided with work. That would not only help those who were receiving relief, but it would assist business generally. At present the Hospital Board had to call tenders for supplies, which meant the granting of a monopoly to one firm, and the same practice was likely to be followed when the Government proceded to give assistance in kind.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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