HELP FOR LOSERS IN FLOOD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22392, 4 May 1938, Page 7

HELP FOR LOSERS IN FLOOD

'f. GOVERNMENT TO GRANT SUSTENANCE i ... LABOUR SUPPLY ALSO BEING I INVESTIGATED - f . . '- (niSS ASSOCIATION TH.ZOBAK.) A HASTINGS, M«y 3. Minister for Labour (the Hon. 5, T. Armstrong) has made arrangements for assistance under the Labour Department's No. 4A scheme to be granted farmers who have suffered loss as a result of the recent floods," •aid the Hon. W. E. Barnard speaking on behalf of the executive ol the relief committee. Assistance will be granted by way of a weekly sustenance • allowance, payable to those farmers who have lost all their income and who have no financial resources available to meet their living expenses," Mr Barnard continued. "Sustenance rates are as follows:—Single men . 15s; married men, 235; married men with one child, 295; married men with two children, 335; married men with" three children, 375; married men with four children, 41s; married men with five children. 455; married men with six children, 495; married men with seven or more children, 535. 'The executive of the relief committee is to discuss with the Government the revision of sustenance rates." ■aid Mr Barnard. "The question of the supply of labour to farmers is also being investigated, and the Labour Department will provide assistance by • gay of subsidy under No. 4B scheme. Normally, under this scheme, the subsidy represents 50 per cent, of the contract price, but the Minister for La-. Dour has informed me that in approved cases he is prepared to agree to the whole of the labour cost being met from the Employment Promotion *und. In a good number of cases it will not be convenient to carry out work by contract, and to meet the Position arrangements will, be made in ■uch cases to have the work carried put on day labour under the supervision of the farmers themselves or b y j the employment of gangs of men under the control of the Public Works Department." iH> FOB ISOLATED FAMILIES IN HAWKE'fc BAY IniW AMOCIATIOI TBLBO«AM.» .. HASTINGS, May 3. • Aerial relief methods are proving an •utstanding success in satisfying the

urgent demand* of flood sufferers in isolated areas in Hawke's Bay. Reports show that the system of transmitting messages by. ground signs has been effective, and daily surveys by the Baffin Government aeroplane and by machines from the Hawke's Bay and East Coast Aero Club, and by private aeroplanes, are resulting in the relief of isolated distressed families. Considerable service has been given by members and the ground staff of the Aero Club, and by private owners of machines, and a very wide field has been covered. _■■ Logs show that so far 6000 miles have been covered in aerial relief work.