RELIEF PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 266, 7 August 1934, Page 4

RELIEF PROBLEM

Lengthy Discussion By City Council DEPUTATION ARRANGED. The question of future unemployment relief was discussed by the Wellington City Council last’ evening, when the meeting adjourned frpm last week was continued. An acute position has arisen over the financing of relief measures. Of the £lB,OOO provided by the Wellington City Council for the employment of 2500 men under the No. 5 scheme during the current financial year no less than £10,600 has been spent in the first three months, and at the present rate of expenditure the whole amount will be exhausted with only half the year gone. In moving that the question be considered in committee, the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, said that the interests of the council would best be served in that manner. Or. R. McKeen, M.P., objected emphatically against holding the discussion in committee. Such action might he said, have the appearance of whitewashing the Unemployment Board. Other councillors supported Cr. McKeen. The Mayor's motion was carried by eight votes to seven. After a discussion in committee lasting about four ..hours the Mayor announced that it had been decided that a deputation representing the City Council wait upon the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the Minister of Employment