UNEMPLOYMENT

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 14

UNEMPLOYMENT

—_♦ NO RESTORATION OF WAGES CUT _____ j HOARD'S KEl'l.Y TO KEQI EST j The resolution arrived at by the conference of representatives of local bodies in and round Christchurch, : held two or three weeks ago, asking : 011 behalf of relief workers for the : restoration of the cut, -was conveyed • to the Unemployment Board through' the Minister for Employment. The Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) has re- ' ceived a reply to the representations made on the subject from the Commissioner for lUnemployment (Mr G. C. Godfrey), who wrote that the board; could not favourably consider the restoration of the 10 per cent, cut to relief workers under the board's No. 5 scheme. As to the request from several local bodies for information about, the op- , cration of a scheme for subsidising local body works by the board, Mr Godfrey wrote that it was a scheme whereby local bodies a sub- ' sidy from the board to onabio Them to carry out certain special works, which could not be undertaken with- 1 out financial assistance. The board was prepared to grant these subsidies under special conditions. "The work is arranged for a full 40-hour week a; standard rates of pay. and eligible and registered relief workers are engaged • through the local Government bureaux," he wrote. "The board is prepared 1o receive applications from local bodies, but it will be necessary, for them to reveal their financial posi- j tions and show that assistance is neces- i sary." ' ROYS' TRAINING FARM AITEAL FOK IMPLEMENTS AND STOCK ll was recently announced that the Christchurch Boys' Employment Committee had decided to proceed with a farm-training scheme so that boys at present unemployed may be given an elementary training in farm work, to give them a little practical experience before taking tip work in the country. To equip this farm, implements and animals will be required, and at a recent meeting of the committee it was decided to make an appeal to the farming community for some of the committee's requirements. To be able to commence operations the committee needs six cows, two light draught horses, one single-furrow plough, one tip dray, one spring dray, harrow.-, harness, and any other ; rticles ol use on a farm. Farmers who have changed over from teams to tractors might, it is suggested, have spare harness, and those who have changed from dairying to sheep might have a spare cow, while the general use of motor vehicles might have caused a dray to become unnecessary. Farmers having anything they would like to give for the training farm are asked to communicate with Mr W. McAllister, IH9 Caledonian road, telephone 35-195. or by courtesy of the National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., donations may be delivered or consigned to them at the Addington salevards. The committee will greatly appre- : ciate any assistance which will help them to establish the farm on a sound | footing.