WORKLESS IN HUTT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 284, 27 August 1930, Page 6

WORKLESS IN HUTT

Position in the Valley TYPICAL CASES A question at Monday’s meeting of the Lower Hutt Borough Council as to the position of unemployment, the Mayor (Sir Alexander Robot Is) that at last registration 150 men hud registered as being out of work. men, however, may already have got won. “The position is, however, he con tinned, ‘•that wo cannot possibly employ all the men who have registered as unemployed. We purpose to make a iota and ration the work out, giving first pie tercnee to men with large families, propose, after they have had u ’ Cili>o “‘ able time of work, - take them off tor spell. It is the only tan- way we can do it to see that everyone gets his turn. We hope to take on more men next week now that everything m. connection with the loan proposals is definitely settled. As showing something of the position of unemployment in the Hutt A alley, Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., has drawn up a list of married men only in Bctone and Lower Hutt who, between August 1 and 11, hate applied to him to see if he could get •work for them. No account has been taken of single men. The list contains , nearly fifty names nnd is far from being an exhaustive one, as, he says, there must be a great many more who have not made any such application to him. Lower Hutt. The following examples are taken from the Lower Hutt, letters being substituted for names. The weeks of unemployment are counted to August 17. A. served continuously . through the war; has three children, and been out of work five weeks. n B —three children; out of work 1U (’—was dismissed from the railw’ay workshops; is prepared to do any kind of work available. , „ p.— s ix children, and has been out five "p; three children, and has been out 14 weeks. , K There is another man who has tour children, pays 30/- a week and has been out of work for two months Aiiother meig a rfeturned soldier, n receipt of a pension of 15/- a week, can not get work because of the state of Ins heart. He has been turned down foi the economic pension. Potone. one child, has been out of work for four children, has been out nine "p-L two children, Las been out nine ■' children, has been out fourteen y ' P pLthree children, has been out 14 " three children, has heen out fourteen we jf—five children, hits heen out five ■\vpftks. ■ . ■ * There is another case of a man who was employed by the Pctone Borough Council. He has four children, pajs £2/5/- a week rept, and has done no work for five months. Tr ~ A man who was employed by the Hutt Borough Council has three dependents, and lie has done no work for five weeks. He had reported at the Labour Bureau but was informed that there were a number ahead of him. He was with one ot the batteries in the Great War from the start, and saw service in Mesopotamia and France, and is one of four survivors of his battery. He is 45 years of age. Another man had beep constantly employed with a bitumen . plant. He has been out of work ten weeks, and has been informed there is no work for him in his trade until the end of October.