WORK PROBLEM

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 5

WORK PROBLEM

JOBS IN BACK-BLOCKS,

THE TRANSPORT DIFEICULTY

tSpecial to the Times.) WELLINGTON.. Fob. 27. Because of the difficulties of transport in their extensive areas some county councils and road -d----vised the Unemployment Board that thev were unable to -take ndvautage of 'Scheme No. 5 (States the chanman Hon. S. G. Smith). They pointed out that in some eases, the work they could provide was 20 or HO miles away, and that it vould h • necessary ' for the men < to camp on the iob. But as some men wore eligible for only two days’ work, some for only throe days.' and some for four days, there would he a constant coming and. going, , which would not The f b*oa°rd C thoroughly discussed this question, realising that the claim/ 1 of tile locn l . .bod» S deMjred consideration, and- eventually it was resolved that “in. those ..cases where transport difficulties .. occurred, two periods of employment be worked co•mther bv- working one at the cncl or Uio wcek and the other at the beg.niiing of the next, week. ■ It will now he possible for a ried man entitled to four days employment- each week, to work during four- days of one week and complete .his term-on-the first four davs of the following week. Ihe two day - men can begin their -term at the end o.f the first -weet ;and fim|h tip on the first two days of the next widening of the .scope of the scheme should - greatly increase its value to local bodies with wide-flung territory,” added the Minister, . will not onlv enable them, to carry ~n back-block jobs with a continuity of labor, but will, simplify then labor, -transport problem. ? J