SUBSIDISED BUILDING.

Evening Star, Issue 21219, 28 September 1932, Page 9

SUBSIDISED BUILDING.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l notice that the Unemployment Board has ruled that a sub-con-tractor who employs a man or men is not eligible to be registered himself under the No. 10 scheme. Now, I have received word from Wanganui that Mr Jessep, the deputy-chairnian of the Unemployment Board, stated that the last thing the board wished to do was to penalise the small struggling business man, and he gave orders that, for the purposes of the subsidy, all builders, contractors, and sub-contractors in Wanganui to be registered. If this applies to Wanganui, it should apply to Dunedin and elsewhere in the dominion. How is it, then, that I iannot register here for the purposes of the subsidy? If we sub-contractors cannot do register, then we are worse off than ever, because no one will give us a job at full rates when he can have it done by a bigger firm which can employ registered men. I 'Would like to know what the real position is. —I am, etc.. Plumbing Sub-contractor. September 26. . [Since the Wanganui meeting at which Mr Jessep was reported to have made this statement, the local office of -the Labour Department has received the following advice from the Unemployment Commissioner: “ Small contractors not employing labour may register as unemployed under scheme No. 10, but contractors employing labour, being employed, cannot register.” —Ed., E.S.]