NUMBER FIVE SCHEME.
EARLY END FORESHADOWED.
At a meeting of the Otahuhu Borougn Council last evening the Mayor, Mr. C. R. Petrie, M.P.. read an extract from a circular which foreshadowed the end of No. 5 Scheme. The extract read: "As there is now very little difference between Scheme Five rates of relief and the increased sustenance rates which operate as from November 30, a number of men on Scheme 5 will prefer to be transferred to sustenance. Such a transfer will be effected as expeditiously as circumstances will allow and arrangements are being made to close down all Scheme 5 works as soon as possible."
Pending further information, the matter was not discussed, but it seems that there will be many men anxious to change over. Cue case was ro,ported to the "Star" correspondent where a man working two days 20 minutes a week gets 2/3 per week less than he would get by going on sustenance and not working at all.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 8
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