Council Unable To Give Work
The Canterbury Organisation for the Unemployed will be told by the Christchurch City Council that its request for the unemployed to be offered at least 20 hours work a week with the council would be difficult to meet.
The organisation’s proposal was that the unemployment benefit should be paid to the council by the Government and used to subsidise wages for the men concerned. The council’s decision was based on a report from its engineer (Mr P. G. Scoular), who said that hand labour today tended to complement and support machine work, for which the council needed good permanent labourers with some skill and experience. Part-time work would be difficult to find except in such jobs as channel sweeping. Mr Scoular said that on
subsidised work every dollar spent on wages entailed another $1.78 for materials and transport. For non-subsidised work the extra amount was 92 cents.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31661, 23 April 1968, Page 16
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