AUCKLAND INQUIRY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 190, 10 May 1934, Page 10

AUCKLAND INQUIRY

Problem of Unemployment

By Telegraph.— Pres.- Association. Auckland, May 9.

Proposals for dealing with the unemployment problem were adopted at a conference representing local bodies ana social organisations. The first, proposal was that, pending their reabsorption into industry, the unemployed should be granted a sustenance payment on the scale laid down in the original Act of 1930 and throughout the whole period of their disemployment. Other proposals wore that immediate steps should be taken to restore trade uuioil conditions, and work of a constructive nature should be carried out at standard rates of pay; definite plans should be prepared for Hie full development of the Dominion’s natural resources; all benefits derived from machinery should be conferred on humanity as a whole; an economic land settlement. policy should be inaugurated on the lines of village and group settlement, and the Government should inquire into the establishment of new industries.

The conference approved a suggestion to issue municipal credit notes to an amount of 25 per cent, of the ordinary expenditure of municipal authorities, but the proposal was referred to a committee for elaboration.