CHRISTMAS BONUS
GRANT TO RELIEF WORKERS FURTHER DEFINITION BY MINISTER [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 10. The Minister of Employment (Mr H. T. Armstrong) announces that the Christmas bonus to relief workers will be an amount equivalent to two, and a-half weeks’ normal relief to workers in receipt of relief during the week ended December 7, and who have been on relief for periods totalling at least 13 weeks during the previous 12 months. Women registered with women’s employment committees and eligible under the above are included. The payments will be in two instalments. the first prior to Christmas, comprising the two weeks’ holiday period, plus a week’s bonus, and the second on January 2 or as soon thereafter as possible, comprising a payment equal to one week and a-half’s pay. The Minister emphasises that men taking up seasonal work offering will not be penalised, but will receive the bonus, and urges the men to accept the work offering.
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Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8
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160CHRISTMAS BONUS Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8
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