WORKLESS RELIEF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11828, 9 January 1933, Page 5

WORKLESS RELIEF

POSITION AS AT DECEMBER 24

lin\V MEN ARE ENGAGED

(Press Association.;

WELLINGTON, Jau, 7

The number of uuemrjoyod registered during the week ended December 24 was 69,281, a reduction of 30 compared with the week ended November 26. Tbe figures for the week ended December 24 of men on the register on that date or who have been transferred therei'orm to schemes other than Scheme No. 5 total 69,281, ot whom 5199 are ineligible for relief for various reasons. This leaves 64,082 men a charge on the Board’s funds. These are engaged as follows: Scheme No. 5, 47,425; subsidised employment •on farms under Schemes No.s 4A, and 48, Farm Camp scheme, etc., 9209; camp scheme (mostly single men, land improvement and development 1689; highways, back block roads, 1651 ; afforestation (mostly State Forest service) 469; building scheme subsidy, 3243; gold prospecting schemes (exclusive of 1274 men prospecting under Scheme No. 5) 232; miscellaneous (subsidised employment in various industries) 16-1 Of tlie 64,082 men it is estimated that.at least 32,00(J men are engaged on work of a definite reproductive development nature in connection with the Dominion's primary industries.

PRINCE’S BROADCAST APPEAL.

ROYAL TRIBUTE TO UNEMPLOYED.

(TJ.P.A. bv Elec Tei. Copyright.)

(Received Jan. s, 6.45 p.rn.) LONDON, Jan. 7.

The Prince of Wales, in a broadcast talk, renewed his earlier appeal for support on behalf of the National Council of Social Service, which is organising voluntary efforts to find useful occupations and suitable recreation to fill in the time of the unemployed. He emphasised that the present was a time of national emergency. He referred to his special visits to the rural and industrial areas of England, where he saw work being done by, and on behalf of the unemployed. He expressed the greatest admiration for what he saw, and the fact that men who might be excused for being discouraged were refusing to be idle.

UN E M PLOYED AND I’.EN

DECISION IN HAMILTON

HAMILTON. 3an. 6

The resell, uf a secret ballet taken among local unemployed by the Unemployed AN orlfei’r Movement is declared to be that 263 of the 293 who voted are in favor of a ‘rent strike . At a meeting of unemployed it was decided tliafc no relief worker should pay over os a week tor relit to any landlord. Unanimity concerning tbe starting time for the went strike was not reached, and another meeting "'ill be held this week.