THE ACT EXPLAINED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 12

THE ACT EXPLAINED

ADDRESS BY MR. BROMLEY

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Ist December. A large meeting of representatives of local bodies which met Mr. W. Bromley, a member of the Unemployment Board, this afternoon, had several, matters relating to the working of the Act cleared up. The meeting was called t6 ascertain if work could not be found for men this"-month to enable them to tide over the Christinas season. Mr. Bromley said the Unemployment Act. could do something to minimise the distress which was being caused through unemployment, and the board could do a good deal, provided there was full co-operation by every worker, every employer of labour, and every citizen. Without this co-opera-tion the board could not be the success it was anticipated it would be, and ought to be. The board desired to find work for the unemployed in the last month of the year at Christmas time, and there were at the present time some 10,000 unemployed in the Dominion. It was impossible for the board to set the machinery for sustenance in action between now and Christmas time, and the question of co-operation with produc: tive industries and developmental work also could not be dealt with1 before Christmas time. To meet the position the board had decided to encourage public bodies to put in as much work as possible before Christmas. . In Wellington work had been found for about 350 unemployed. The board had decided to make an offer to the various centres of a subsidy of £25,000, and Dunedin, subject to adjustment, would be allocated £2000, payable on a £2 for £1 basis. That was the board's contribution immediately toward the relief of unemployment, the subsidy being for work that had not previously been determined on in Dunedin.