FULL TIME JOBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 12

FULL TIME JOBS.

AT STANDARD RATES.

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY PLAN. POSITION AT AUCKLAND. Although the Minister of Finance, Mr. Coates, stated in his Budget speech that over 8000 unemployed men were now engaged full-time at standard rates of pay as a result of the encouragement given to employing authorities by the Unemployment Board, very few of the local bodies in the Auckland metropolitan area are employing men on that basis. In several instances, however, the wages that relief workers are receiving under the No. 0 scheme are being subsidised. Inquiries made this morning revealed tho fact that the Auckland City Council, the Mount Eden, Mount Albert and Onehunga Borough Councils, and the Auckland Transport Board are employing all told a few over 400 men under tho scheme mentioned by Mr. Coates. The wages that the men are earning appear to range from £3 10/ Cto £3 lli/8 for a 40-hour week.

Tho Mount Eden Council is employing 12~> men on this basis, the wages paid being £3 10/0, of which tlie Unemployment Board is finding 35/ per man per week. The number receiving standard rates from tho City Council is Ofi, although other relief workers are in receipt of an extra day's work over and above their allocation, or are being paid sti ndard rates for the time worked according to their classifications. In the case of Mount Albert, capital works arc being carried out, which have enabled tho council to engage up to 150 men at full rates, although at the present time this number lias been reduced to 00. The Auckland Transport Board is paying 67 men £3 13/4 a week, and is being allowed 3;")/ per man from the Unemployment Board. One Tree Hill's Plans. In the immediate future the One Tree Hill Borough Council proposes to place 20 men now on No. 5 scheme on drainage, road and water works, which will involve an expenditure of .€3091 over t lie next six months. The wages to be paid will be 1/11 an hour for labourers, or £3 10/8 a week, and the Unemployment Board, it is understood, is willing to subsidise the scheme to the* extent of 35/ a week per man. Similarly, the Newmarket Borough Council within the next few weeks expects that it will be in a position to engage 12 men at ordinary rates ol pay in connection with its proposal to lay down the principal pavements in the borough in concrete. Tho Takapuna Council is meeting the expense of giving work to six men at £3 10/ a week, while the Onehunga Council has 2S men, apart from its Xo. 5 scheme workers, who are earning 12/ a day for a 40-hour week of five days. At Northcote employment is being given to 70 relief workers, and it is thought that a scheme to give some of the mi standard rates of pay will be introduced within the next few months when tho council launches certain highways jobs.