WORK IN CITY.
FOR SIX HUNDRED MEN
MOST NECESSITOUS CASES.
EARLY START PROMISED. Six hundred men recently transferred from No. 5 relief scheme to sustenance are to be re-employed by the City Council as a result of representations made ,to the Unemployment Board that they were in necessitous circumstances. Many complaints have been made that the amount of sustenance paid was insufficient to maintain the men and their families. At a meeting on Tuesday of the Auckland Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Committee, of which the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, is chairman, reference was made to the additional calls on the funds of the committee by those receiving sustenance, and Mr. Hutchison later communicated with the Unemployment Board on the matter. Tlie Mayor was advised by telephone yesterday afternoon that the Unemployment Board would give authority to enable up to GOO of the most necessitous cases to be re-employed under No. 5 scheme. The city engineer is going into the question of finding work on which they can be employed most reproductive! v, and they will be engaged as soon as possible. Letter From Minister. In a letter to the Mayor commenting upon matters brought under his notice in Auckland, the Minister says:— The first recommendation was "that the unemployed, pending their reabsorption into industry, should be granted sustenance payment on the scale laid down in the original Act of 1930, and throughout the whole period of their disemployment." ■ The Minister's comment is as follows: "This clause was fully discussed, when it was pointed out that the main portion of the unemployment methods considered here was the No. 5 scheme, under which slightly more than 50 per cent of the registered unemployed are rendered relief. The Unemployment Board '.*s quite in agreement that the No. 5 scheme is not particularly satisfactory, and it is desired to get the men as speedily as .possible into full-time employment at standard rates of pay; failing this, or the provision of useful approved work, sustenance is preferable. The discussion then centred around the amount of sustenance that should be payable.
Subsidies on Works. "If I remember rightly, the conference unanimously agreed, that sustenance without work should not be paid on the same scale as when work was performed." Regarding a recommendation that work of a constructive nature should be carried, out at standard rates of pay, the Minister says that the Unemployment Board is keen to get local bodies to put in hand approved works on which a subsidy will be paid from the Unemployment Fund conditionally on the work being carried out on full-time standard rates of pay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 11
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434WORK IN CITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 11
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