FORESTRY CAMPS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 5

FORESTRY CAMPS

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

HIGHER RATES OF PAY

, (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, May 26. Employment for a large number of registered unemployed has been arranged between the Unemployment Board and the Forestry Department. It is considered that the 660 men drafted to camps under this scheme will be in a better position financially than those who are engaged on relief works in the metropolitan area. ■ ■ The Forestry Department is carrying out a comprehensive programme of tree-planting at Taupo and Tairua, and the men required aro to bo drawn from Auckland and tho towns in the Auckland Province. A total of 500 men will be required for the Taupo work, where tree-planting will be done as an extension of the work already carried out by the Forestry Department westward from Kaingaroa, while 160 men will be drafted to Tairua, on tho eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula, where further planting is to be done. The work is expected to last about five months. The rates of pay, which were fixed by tho Unemployment Board at Wellington, are as follows, board being provided by tho Unemployment Board in each case without charge to the men: Single men; 10s a week; maricrl men without children, 255; married men with one child, 30s; with two children, 355; with three or more children, £,2. Fares to the job are to be paid by the Forestry Department, and to ensure that the men will be able to earn the full amount each week it has been decided that in the event of wet weather any day declared wet by the officer in charge will be paid for. In announcing the scheme, Mr. W. Slaughter, officer controlling unemployment in . the Auckland district, said that men were being dispatched as fast a3 they could bo called up. This work was not being confined to men from the city, but was also being offered to men in the country areas, many of whom had been complaining that their allocation was low in comparison with that allowed the city men. . , ■It is considered that there should be no lack of volunteers for this work as the rates quoted are better than those provided for city relief workers. The rates at present paid to married men* on city relief works are: Men without children, 22s Cd a week; with one child, 275; with two children, 31s 6d; with three or more children, 063.