GISBORNE AERODROME
RELIEF WORK ISSUE
GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE
Advice that the Government would not be in a position to supply funds, enabling relief work on tho Gisborne aerodrome to be carried on at trade
union rates of pay, was contained in a letter received by Mr. P. Fraser, M.P., from the Acting-Minister of Employment (the Hon. J. A. .Young).1 Representations were recently made to. the Minister on the subject. .
Tho Minister said that the Unemployment Board had been advised that the aerodrome was not a Government one, nor.would the proposed work confer any material benefit as far as Government aviation interests were concerned. It did not, therefore, appear to the board that there was any likelihood that the additional funds necessary to carry out the work at trade union rates of pay would bo forthcoming from any Government source.
"The consideration of the matter by the board indicates that any question of paying labour charges at rates higher than is available from the Unemployment Fund is one for the local bodies interested in the prosecution of tho work," stated the letter. "The board_ advises me in this connection that it is desirous of encouraging full-time employment on useful works wherever the interested parties -can make the necessary financial arrangements; and the board is prepared, if the local authorities concerned are willing to make the job a full-time one, to grant subsidy on the same basis as has been accorded to other local bodies. If, however, the bodies interested are unable to make arrangements to this end, and the labour charges have to be met wholly from the Unemployment Fund, the board regrets that it is not in a position to depart from the basic conditions which have already been made known to the men, and which are an advance on the Scheme 5 allocations normally available to the men.
"The board is, however, inquiring into the complaint made by the deputation that, compared with their allocations on Scheme s', some men would lose from one-half to li days' work per month on the aerodrome job under present arrangements. It is not the intention of the board that any men should be placed at a disadvantage on the job, and it is expected that matters can be so arranged that the cause of this complaint will be removed.''
GISBORNE AERODROME
Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 16
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