UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

RESERVES DEPARTMENT Group 604 will report lor work at tlie Woodhaugh Gardens' at. 8 a.in. tomorrow. WORKERS' FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION The weekly meeting of the Dunedin Workers’ Friendly Association was held last Monday in the North-east V alley Town Hall. The vice-president (Bro. R M'Kenzie) presided over a large attendance of members. Correspondence was received from Sir John Roberts, OLR.C., and the North Dunedin Labour Party. A deputation from the District Council of Workers waited on the association, and it was later decided that two association delegates should attend the next meeting of the council. ' The investigator’s report was adopted. Seven cases of distress and sickness were reported, and these had received benefits for the ensuing week. Th Social Committee’s report, showing the success of the dances, was adopted. SUSTENANCE PROPOSALS ANQ ISSUE OF MUNICIPAL CREDIT NOTES [ft* United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 9. Proposals for dealing with the unemployment problem were adopted at a conference of representatives of local bodies and social organisations. The first proposal was that, pending their reabsorption into industry, the unemployed should be granted a sustenance payment on the scale laid down in the original Act of 1930 and throughout the whole period of their unemployment. Other proposals were that immediate steps should be taken to restore trade union conditions and that work of a constructive nature should be carried out at the standard rates of pay. Definite plans 'should be prepared for a full development of the dominion’s natural resources. All the benefits derived from machinery should he conferred on humanity as a whole. An economic land • settlement policy should be inaugurated on the lines of village and group settlement, and the Government should inquire into the establishment of new industries. •The conference approved a suggestion to issue municipal credit notes to the amount of 25 per cent, of the ordinary expenditure of municipal authorities, but the proposal was referred to a comr mittee for elaboration. APPLICANTS FOR WORK FIGURES PRACTICALLY STATIONARY [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 9. Figures issued to-day by the Unemployment Board show that applicants for work at Government employment bureaux on April 14 totalled 41,327, compared with 41,407 on March 17. Of a total of 36,527 persons receiving relief, it was estimated that 11,600 were employed on developmental and reproductive work calculated to benefit the dominion’s primary industries. NORTH DUNEDIN ASSOCIATION The weekly meeting of the North Dunedin Unemployed Workers’ Association was held on Tuesday evening, Mr J. Hastie occupying the chair. Correspondence was received from the s»cretary N.U.W.M., Dunedin Workers’ Friendly Association. A full report of the first meeting ,of the unemployed District Council of Otago was received, and it was agreed .to affiliate with this body. The euchre tournament financial statement .was adopted. The secretary of the Social Committee stated that another euchre tournament was to commence to-night. Five new members were accepted, and speakers were selected for open-air meetings. FAST AND FURIOUS FUN • YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU ’ Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd will be responsible for fast and furious fun at the Regent Theatre to-morrow. They are the life and soul of ‘ You Made Me Love You,’ a delightful musical comedy, of which the theme is that of a song writer in search of a wife and his efforts to take her by. storm. The plot has one chance in several millions of being possible, and for that reason the production, is practically one long laugh. Lupino, he of the rubber neck and goggle eyes, talks, throws himself round, and makes love in the most amazing and admirable manner, and though the laugh is against him in most of the ludicrous situations it is with him at the end. Some of the cross talk between Lupino and Thelma Todd, who plays the part of ■ the unwilling young wife, is inimitable. The production remains on the same lively and exhilarating key throughout, and its amusement value is further enhanced by two merry vocal compositions, ‘ What’s Her Name?’ and ‘Why Can’t We?’ delivered by Stanley Lupino in his very own manner. From the moment when Lupino, as Tom Daly, captured his spitfire young wife, Pamela Berne (Thelma Todd), the fun began in earnest, although it was present in a minor key from the start of the picture to the time when Tom met his bride at the altar in plus fours. With the honeymoon embarked on safely handcuffed together the struggle to tame a spoilt, tiger-cat woman really began, leading by leaps and bounds to a happy ending. A background of fun is furnished by a capable cast, included among whom are John Lodpr, Gerald Rawlinson, James Carew, and Charles Mortimer.