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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 12

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Unemployment Subsidy No. 2 SCHEME Wellington Committee LOCAL ORGANISATION For the purpose of considering proposals under the Unemployment Board’s No. 2 scheme, and to set up committees and take the steps necessary to inaugurate the scheme as applying to Wellington, a meeting of representatives of various local bodies and. organisations was held at the Town Hall last evening, the Deputy-Mayor, Councillor M. F. Duckie, presiding. The Deputy-Mayor said 1 No. 2 scheme had in view an organisation for the purpose of putting men who were out of work in touch with people who were prepared to give one, two or three days’ work at some domestic job such as gardening, wood-chopping, gorse-clearing, in order to tide the-men over Christmas and the New Year. The Labour Departments or organising committee would get in touch with men suitable for such work. Permanent Committees. Mr. H. B. Burdekin, the Wellington 1 representative on the Unemployment Board, said the local committees would be required to carry on, not only during Christmas and New Year, but while the Unemployment Board and the Act were in operation. No. 1 scheme was for local bodies, and No. 2 scheme was one in which they looked for the co-operation of the public in employing individuals who would not be reached by No. 1 scheme. Cabinet had approved of No. 2 scheme and had granted £25,000 for the payment of a subsidy on a £ for £ basis on wages only. The subsidy would not exceed 7/- a day, but the rate of wage was to be mutually arranged between employer and employee. It was hoped that, thoughout New Zealand the response would be such as greatly to alleviate the position. Forms would have to be filled in to secure that the service was given- to the employer, that the work was done and the wages paid. If the wage was to be 14/- a day, the employer would pay 7/-, and give a certificate that the worker was entitled to claim the subsidy of 7/-. The man would be given a voucher addressed to the nearest postmaster, who would cash the voucher as he would a postal , note. That machinery had been approved by the Treasury and would be used throughout New Zealand for this particular scheme. A card would be filled in and sent tp the secretary of the local committee, on which would be recorded the work done, or, on the other hand, that the man had not turned up to do the work. This would enable a tag to be kept on those men who came for work and then refused the work found for them. There were ho doubt many people who could give only an hour or two’s work, but neighbours might join together and find a number of small jobs among them which would give a man work for one or two days. It was hoped that a certain amount of clerical work could be found for men who could not do heavy work, and that the' Chamber of Commerce and kindred organisations would assist in providing a business man’s bureau where they could get labour of a specialised type for certain classes of work. Wages Question. In regard to Wages, said Mr. Burdekin, it would have to be understood by the men that if they were not fully qualified, the principle of under-rate workers would have to be recognised, and they might not all get 14/- a day or what they expected. The board would not take into consideration the wage to be paid, which was to be a matter between employer and employee, and would not interfere with any award or trade union rate of wage. ’ The board would not say that employers must offer a certain wage. General Committee Set Up. It was agreed that those present should form a general committee. They were: Councillors M. Luckie, G. Mitchell, R. A. Wright, M.P., R. Semple, M.P., and R. McKeen, M.P., Messrs. P. Fraser, M.P., F. Castle and G. Petheriek (Wellington Hospital Board), J. W. McEwan (chairman Wellington Harbour Board), P. Butler, W. Bromley, Capt. Galloway (Red Cross Society), T. J. Spears (president Wellington Manufacturers’ Association), A. H. Kinsman (Labour Department), and a representative of the Salvation Army. An executive committee was appointed, comprising Messrs. J. I. Goldsmith, Galloway, Butler, Cornwell, and representatives of the Salvation Army and the Labour Department. The committee will be called the Wellington Unemployment Committee. Mr. P. Butler, of the Trades Hall, is to be convener of the executive, which is to meet to-day at 2.30 p.m. THE MAYOR’S FUND The Mayor's fund for the relief of uniemployment now totals £1247/6/6. The donations received yesterday were as

PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS - Auckland Mayor’? Attitude By Telegraph.—Press Association Auckland, December 9. The action of the Mayor of Wellington in opening a public subscription list to provide funds on which to claim the Unemployment Board’s subsidy is not to be followed by the Mayor of Auckland. “I have no intention of calling for public subscriptions at the present time,” said Mr. Baildon this morning, “The people of Auckland have responded very generously in the past to appeals to help the unemployed, and they have also responded very liberally to many other appeals of a public and private nature which have been made upon them. In fact it would not be going too far to suggest that those who are fortunate enough to have a position or to be in receipt of a small income have been bled almost .white in endeavouring to assist those in distressed circumstances I know very well that the people of Auckland have the will to give, but there is a limit to what they can 00. They are now paying the usual Government and local body taxation; they have been called upon to pay the unemployment levy, and they will contribute still further bv reason of amounts found by the Citv Council and other local authorities for' unemployment relief works which are now being put in hand.. Asking them to do more at the present juncture would in ray opinion be too much.*

follow £ 3. d. Mrs. C. W. Moore * 10 0 Miss K. Bell 20 0 0 Winstone, Limited 5 5 0 Taubmans, Limited 2 2 0 Staff Cadbury, Fry and Hudsons’ (Wellington) 2 2 0 J. . J. Smith ..... 2 0 0 G. W. Wilton 2 2 0 Sir Michael Myers 7 7 0 Society of Friends 15 0 Per Vicar of Miramar: G. Pinhey 10 0 0 Geo. Cooper 5 5 0 Mr. and Mrs. Jno. R. Palmer .. 2 2 0 Collections taken up at theatres last Saturday— Queen’s 4 14 3 Kilbirnie Kinetna 7 4 4 He Luxe Theatre lil 14 6 Paramount I I •) Regent 40 1 0 Princess 2 2 10 Britannia 3 17 0 Lyall Bay 5 11 6 Our Theatre, Newtown St. James Theatre 8 2 30 14 2 King's IS 1 7 Majestic Miramar 20 15 2 5 4 4 Artcraft Theatre 9 14 10