JOINERY WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1933, Page 15

JOINERY WORK

SUBSIDY EXTENDED BOARD'S ANNOUNCEMENT Joinery work tarried out in registered factories for uso-ou jobs carrying a subsidy has been brougbt "within the scope of the Unemployment Board's building subsidy scheme. In an announcement made last evening the board gave the following details of the extension:— 1. Classes of joinery affected— doors, door frames, window frames, window sashes, frame panels, mantelpieces, and staircases. -. A subsidy additional to the- wages subsidy payable in respect of wages on tho job will be paid to the owner carrying out the work in respect of any or all of the items of joinery itemised in the previous paragraph that are'manufactured inland supplied by a registered joinery factory. 3. Tho basis of subsidy'will be 8 per cent, of the amount paid for the joinery ex factory, not including any post for delivery. . . I i. Claims for this subsidy, must bei supported by invoices showing 1 in detail the net factory cost, and tho invoices must be supported by a certificate from the builder carrying out the work that the_ joinery upon which subsidy is claimed has been received and used on the approved job. ' Tho Minister of Employment (the Hon. A. Hamilton) stated last evening (that strong representations had been made to the . Unemployment Board j alleging that if tho subsidy on wages were confined to labour employed on the building sites it would result in joinery work, which was usually done in factories, being performed on the site of the building in order to win subsidy. "Following an investigation made by the Unemployment Board," he said, "it does appear that during tho depression the joinery factories have been suffering rather more than has been the case with general builders. "Tho small working builder-con-tractor, who in normal times could secure sufficient work at prices that enabled him to make profits in excess of the wages paid to skilled tradesmen, was naturally content to buy all his joinery ready made from tho factory. Tor some time past it has been difficult for this type of contractor to secure enough jobs to keep him going, and when he has succeeded in getting a job he lias found it more profitable to do as much of his own joinery work as possible. ' . . , "This practice, of course, . has been independent of any. influence arising from the Unemployment Board's schemes, and with'lhc general improvement trade which would result from our No. 10 scheme, it might reasonably be expected to cease. Joinery factory proprietors, however,^ feel that the subsidies of wages given on buildings, unless extended to cover joinery work done in tho factories, would result in an extension of ~ this practice rather than a diminution. The extension' of our subsidy scheme should place the joinery factories on a proper competitive basis with.,work performed on the building site." •