UNEMPLOYED SEAMEN
NOT ELIGIBLE FOR RELIEF MUST FILL CREW SHORTACES [Special to the ‘ Stab.’] WELLINGTON, December 18. Seamen’s applications for registration as unemployed are to be declined for an undefined period, according t® an announcement made by the Ministep of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) . The Minister explained that thi* action had been taken as a result of .reports he had received that there waa considerable difficulty in completing ships’ crews. Officers of the Labour Department were accordingly being instructed that any seaman seeking unemployment relief was to be referred to the shipping companies and. other* who were requiring the services of seamen. While the present demand for seamen continued to exist, they would not be eligible to depend o# the Employment Promotion Fund.
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Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 8
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125UNEMPLOYED SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 8
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