SCHOOL COMMITTEE WORK
• - - ■-♦ — -- i OPERATION OF NO. ."» SCHEME : A denial that school committees : were reducing staffs and replacing them with relief workers was made | to the Unemployment Board by Cr. ij. S. Barnett. who relumed from | Wellington yesterday. Mr Barnett : informed a representative ot "The ' Press" that the members of the board had stated that the ;board had been attacked on every side lor allocating to .-chool committee.' ior v.'oik which m any case would be done by casual labour, relief worker-- under the No. 5 : cheme. It was well known that '. a number of committees had been ; warned that relief workers would i be withdrawn from their employ- ' n.ent. The board would now re- ! quire that school committees wantj ing work done should specify the nature of that work. Where the employment of workers under Iho No. 5 scheme was justified assistance would be eiven. i Mr Barnett added that he had in- ; formed the board that school com-Imit'-'C.-, were not reducing their lieguiar staffs. which consisted | usually of only one caretaker, and |ieplaemg them with relief workers.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21117, 19 March 1934, Page 16
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