CLASS B2 MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 19

CLASS B2 MEN.

ATTITUDE OF BOARD. ! ' i QUALIFIED RESPONSIBILITY. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The. position of the class B2 unemployed men was the subject of an important reference in the House yesterday by the Acting-Minister of Employ- | nient, Mr. Hamilton. It had been suggested" by Mr. M. J. Savage (Labour, Auckland West) that either the hospital boards should be told to give the men relief or the Unemployment Board should do \vhat ap-' peared to be its obvious duty. The Minister said the board was prepared; provided the employing authorities could find the work, to take charge of the- men. However, there would be some who would not have the same right to receive relief pay as the ordinary 'relief workers, but he had been informed that the hospital boards were ; treating each case on its merits, which t was not so unfavourable as might' be I thought. A Labour Member: What will you do if the employing authorities don't employ them? ■ The Minister: We can control our own business, but it is not so easy to control hospital boards and other authorities who administer relief in a different way.