WORKLESS MEN

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 54, 27 November 1930, Page 6

WORKLESS MEN

Upper Hutt Registrations The town clerk, Mr, Harbord, reported to the Upper Hutt Borough Council at its last meeting that there was 33 men in the borough registered as unemployed. Eight of these were. now employed on public works at Akatarawa. Provisions of Act Explained Speaking to a large meeting of employees of the railway workshops, on Tuesday, Mr. Walter Nash, M.P., explained the provisions of the Unemployment Act passed during last session of Parliament. He expressed the opposition of the Labour Party to the flat tax levy, instead of a graduated scale of taxation on incomes. He referred also to the various sections of the'Bill which had been opposed by the Labour Party when it was under consideration by the House of. Representatives. While he considered the Act was wrong in its method of raising the fund, he believed it was a step in the right direction in that a board was now set up and definitely charged with the work of organising employment throughout the Dominion, and that, failing the finding of employment by the board for those at present out of work, there was provision in the Act for the paying of sustenance fot the unemployed and their dependants. Mr. Nash was accorded' a hearty vote of thanks for his address. .