UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19942, 31 May 1930, Page 20

UNEMPLOYMENT.

—♦ POSITION IN AUCKLAND.

CONFERENCE CALLED.

tSSB FBEBS Special Berries.]

AUCKLAND. May 30.

"To say that I am alarmed at the state of unemployment in Auokland would be putting it mildly," said •Mr W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, this morning. "The Board," -Mr Wallace added, "has called a conference of all local bodies in the Auckland Hospital district, from Mercer in the south to Rodney in the north, to consider the position, and that conference will be held on June 10th. We hope that representations will • be made to the Government indicating their responsibility in the matter, and pointing out that it is considered to be a national affair. We maintain that unemployment , relief Bhould come out of the Consolidated Fund." . On enquiry at the City Council offices this morning a reporter Was informed that 72 men were now employed on relief work, and it was possible that others would be taken on shortly. The Returned Soldiers Association, it was stated, had voted the sum of £2OO t9wards giving relief to returned' soldier? who were unemploved, and at the last of the Finance Committee of the City Council, it had been decided to give a £ for £ subsidy. The Government had also been with a view to giving a similar subsidy, and that woufd make £fioo available.