Financing affected job schemes
By
OLIVER RIDDELL
in Wellington Stop-go financing has affected the usefulness and stability of employmentcreation schemes run by the Forest Service, according to briefing papers prepared for the Minister of Forests, Mr Wetere. Project Employment Programme workers had-been taken on for some years, and were still employed on environmental, recreational, and protection activities, with 95 P.E.P. workers at present. The Budget Employment Programme had been introduced in June, last year and
had allowed the Forest Service to employ skilled people, which was not possible under other schemes, to undertake a backlog of technical work.' This scheme had ended in June this year for the Forest Service as the then Government had changed its aims to target on the unskilled and the long-term unemployed, the papers said. This had created problems in completing work in some regions, notably in Westland, and there was scope to provide useful work for young, skilled, unemployed people.
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