AT STANDARD RATES

Evening Post, Issue 37, 13 August 1934, Page 9

AT STANDARD RATES

AUCKLAND RELIEF JOBS

SUBSIDY FROM THE BOARD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, August 11,

Tho Auckland City Council's proposal to complete all its No. 5 schemes as subsidised jobs, paying the men standard wages for the time worked, is to be considered at the next meeting of tho Unemployment Board, said the Mayor, Mr. G. Hutchison, on his roturn today from Wellington. He had arrangod with tho Unemployment Board for a satisfactory rate of subsidy, but to complete the schemo it would be necessary to ask the ratepayers to sanction a loan. This, he felt confident, would be in their interests. The men most suitable for the jobs, he said, would be selected from thoso at prcsont working, and when sufficient had been selected for the council's scheme, about 700 out of 1500 wli&m the council was now employing would bo placed on sustenance. As the efficiency of tlie relief workers was not nearly so high now as when the seheiups wem started, n liefter vet urn wonlil lie <>l>t:iineil l>y I'nnipliM injr tlir works umliT flic standard wuges plan than under reliel: conditions.