EASTER HOLIDAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 76, 30 March 1935, Page 10

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

RELIEF WORKERS' PAY. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The arrangements made by the Unemployment Board for the payment of relief workers during the Easter holidays were announced in the House of Representatives yesterday by the Minister of Employment, Sir Alexander Young. It has been decided by the board, the Minister explained, that Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday and Anzac Day, April 19, 20, 22 and 25, respectively, would be regarded as holidays for all relief workers other than those employed under schemes 4a, 4b, 4d, No. 7 and No. 11. Any relief worker who was eligible under those arrangements and who would be ordinarily employed on those days, would be paid as [ though he worked. Any eligible workers I who ordinarily would be standing down on any or all of the days would not be paid. Where employing authorities decided temporarily to close camps during the Easter holiday period, the railway concession of second-class fares at one-quarter the ordinary rates would be available to camp workers under the conditions which applied with respect to the Christmas-New Year holidays. The decision as to whether camps would or would not be temporarily closed was a matter entirely .vithin the,jurisdiction of the employing authorities. The statement'was made in reply to a question by Air. F. Jones (Labour. Dunedin South), who asked whether the Government would pay all relief workers, including those in camps, for the Easter holiday period, and whether concessions would be available for men who desired to return to their homes.