UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21783, 27 July 1934, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT

PORT CHALMERS COMMITTEE The monthly meeting of the Port Chalmers Unemployment Committee was held in tho mayor’s room yesterday afternoon. Two new registrations were approved, as were also four applications for reregistration from workers who had been lately employed at full-time rates. ; During the past four weeks tho number of unemployed has increased from 68 to 78. The supervisor of vegetable plots reported that during the month he had visited relief workers’ gardens at Sawyer’s Bay, Reynoldstown, Deborah Bay, and Port Chalmers. The men were busy turning over the ground, and some of them had early potatoes in; peas and lettuce were well on. There were some very good crops of parsnips and carrots. Generally speaking, the gardens were very satisfactory at present, considering tl)e weather experienced. Previous holders of plots in Laing street had obtained plots on the Town Belt, where two new sections had been pegged off. GROUPS TO REPORT WORKS DEPARTMENT.' Crops to commence at 8 a.m. tomorrow : 252—Pine Hill road, at Campbell's toad. (Report at Ford byre at 8 a.m.) 255 Preston Crescent, at Harcourt street. 256 Highgate, at Passmore Crescent. , 267—Pitcairn street, at Sanitary stables. 275—Signal Hill road, one mile above M'Gregor street. (Meet at M'Gregor street at 8 a.m.) 281—Glenelg street, at top of street. 283—Sommerville street, at Abbotsford road. 353 Signal Hill road, one mile above M'Gregor street. (Meet at M'Gregor street at 8 a.m.) 354 Silverton street, at Spottiswoode street. 355 Ross Creek reservoir. 356 Somerville street, at Abbotsford road 357 Fraser’s Creek, half mile above baths. 360, 302—M'Glashan street, at Neville street. , 304—The following men of group 364 at Kelvin Grove, at Sanitary stables:

—L. G. Angell, W. J. Braden, 0. Evans, A. E. Jones, R. Mason, O. E. Smith. 364—The balance of Group 364, at Ross Creek reservoir. 367—Malvern street, at old sawmill. 372 Wharf street, at tip. 373 Maryhill terrace, at Avoca street. 378—Lonsdale street, ten chains below Beaumont road. 2.500, 2,501, 2,502 Woodhaugh street, at quarry. 3.501, 3,602, 3,503 —Malvern street, at old sawmill. DISTRICT BOARDS FOR CENTRAL AUTHORITY INTERNAL LOAN SUGGESTION [Per United Press Association. | CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. A public meeting convened by Dr Thacker to-night carried: a resolution that representatives of the Public Works Department, the Highways Board, the Municipal Association, the chairman of the Counties Association, and the Unemployment Board be asked to consider the whole problem of unemployment. It was suggested that consideration should be given to the replacement of the present Unemployment Board by district provincial boards, 1 which would receive unemployment finance according to population or the number of registered unemployed in the district. Tbe raising of an internal loan for unemployment of, say, £10,000,000 should be considered. The present , tax should be reduced to 3d in the £ or such sum as would be required to pay interest and sinking fund over the period required to pay off the- loan at 3 per cent, interest and 2 per cent, sinking fund; the money so raised to be used in necessary public or local body works which could not now be carried on for lack of money.