INTERMITTENT RELIEF
NUMBERS LOWEST SINGE 1931 BOARD REPLIES TO CRITICISM [Per United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, April 7. In a lengthy statement replying to points of criticism of the Unemployment Board’s finances, the board states that, although the total number of workers who failed to find employment under normal conditions reached its peak for New Zealand during the past financial year, the number to-day who aro in receipt of intermittent relief only under scheme 5, or are on sustenance, is the lowest on . record, since April, 1931. In the majority of cases, the effect of the policy of a diversion to fulltime employment has been a heavier, direct drain on the fund than would have been the case if sustenance were paid. The majority of men placed in full-time employment, however, had been engaged in reproductive work and had, ,by their employment, provided additional employment for others, thus preventing the numbers of unemployed from reaching high limits, which appeared inevitable had any other course been taken.
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Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 12
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165INTERMITTENT RELIEF Evening Star, Issue 21689, 7 April 1934, Page 12
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