SUBSIDY OF £BO,OOO OFFERED
FINDING WORK FOR AUCKLAND
UNEMPLOYED
(J’BESS ASSOCIATION TSLBOBAU.I AUCKLAND, July 12. An offer of a subsidy of £BO 000 from the Employment Promotion Fund to give full-time work for four months to 1800 unemployed in the Auckland metropolitan area was made to-day by the Acting-Minister for Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb) at a conference with representatives of local bodies in the city and surrounding districts. The Minister, who was accompanied by Mr W. Bromley, of the Employment Division of the Labour Department, emphasised the need for tackling the u;.employment problem in a nonpolitical way, and gave an assurance to the conference that men who refused work when offered it would receive scant sympathy from the Government
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22143, 13 July 1937, Page 12
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