UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 126, 30 May 1928, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

LOAN OIJ £10,000 THE £ FOR £ SUBSIDY The City Council, sitting as the Finance Committee last evening, decided to take steps for the raising of a loan of S, 10,000 to enable unemployment relief works to. be set under way. This sum does not represent the amount which tho 'council had in mind for expenditure in the relief-of unemployment, but councillors do not feel that they can go further, unless the Government's conditions as regards subsidy arc more favourable than, those holding last winter. That is, in place of a £ for £ subsidy on labour costs only (a»cl that calculated on the basis of 9s and 12s per day 'for single and married men respectively) the council is asking for a £ for £• subsidy on the cost of relief works as a, whole—labour, plant, and material. (By Telegraph.—Press Association) ': HAMILTON, 29 th May. Replying to a deputation on the subject of unemployment, the Prime Minister (tho Eight Hon. J. G. Coates) held out hope for some relaxation of the rule that the Government subsidy would only bo given where 60 pe^ cent, of the outlay represented . labour costs. 'The Government, said Mr. Coates, had asked the Public Works and Treasury officials to report on the subject.