RELIEF WORKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 7, 9 January 1935, Page 7

RELIEF WORKS.

Large Scale Experiment Fails In Britain. WILL NOT BE REPEATED. (Received 10 a.m.) GENEVA, January 8. The League of Nations has published the result of a questionnaire which was addressed to various nations on the subject of relief works.

The British Government states that public works are part of the normal activities of the State and local authorities, but an experiment in public works on a large scale as a method of dealing with unemployment has been tried and failed. The Government adds that it does not intend to repeat the experiment. BRITISH EXCHEQUER.

Revenue Lower, Expenditure Higher. COMPARISON WITH 1933. . (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) KUGBY, January 8. Exchequer returns for the past week show that during the current financial year, total ordinary revenue, exclusive of self-balancing revenue, had amounted by January 5 to £430,G07,502, which was £0,451,508 less than the amount collected on the corresponding date last year. Expenditure for the same period, exclusive of self-balancing items, Mas £544,838,030, which exceeds the amount expended by the corresponding date last year by £10,842,330.

BRITISH MINISTERS

BIG NATIONAL PROBLEMS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 8. Both Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal, will travel to Geneva on Thursday for the meeting of the League of Nations Council.

This afternoon, Sir John called on the Prime Minister, and, it is understood, discussed with him the Franco-Italian agreement and kindred matters.

The Secretary for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, also had an interview with the Prime Minister in regard to the new Indian Constitution Bill. It is anticipated that the second reading of this measure will be moved in the House of Commons during the second week in February, and that the debate will occupy three or four days.