PLACING MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 10

PLACING MEN

NEW EMPLOYMENT PLAN

Over a period of six weeks, 705 men have been transferred from relief or meagre casual and unremunerative work to permanent or well paid casual employment. This has been done under the placement" scheme introduced by the Division of the Labour Department. Official figures of total placements show the following figures:—

"Such has been the initial success of i this plan for discovering worth-while] jobs and the men to fill them," states an official announcement, "that the cordiality of its reception by employers is not only a tribute to the efficiency of its organisation, but an augury that the widening of its scope of operations will probably later be necessary. The scheme is based on the belief that it is necessary to give normal private employment an opportunity to function, and that there is no other way of permanently bringing about a decrease in unemployment."

Permanent. Temporary. Total. Wellington 72 110 182 Chrlstchurch 43 -i " Invercarpill 13 -■> Auckland H 4o o* Dunedin 34 Tilnaru :::::::::: 20 20 40 Masterton "12 1 •>!• Lower Hutt -3 ® -1 Napier 13 Oamani .' 2 „' J 20 Petonc IS -i Hamilton ' {2 Greymouth ...... 13 - i? Palmerston Xorth . o •' Gisfaorne 9 i Whangarei 1 ■> ° New Plymouth .... 2 i ■> Wanganul 2 * 348 357 705