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THOUSANDS OF RELIEF MEN PLANS FOR COMING SPRING SCHEME OF MAJOR WORKS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 23. The Unemployment Board hopes in the coming spring to take thousands of men off sustenance and to place them on major works at standard rates of pay, the Minister for Employment, the Hon. S. G. Smith, stated during an informal conference this afternoon with the Christchurch Unemployment Committee. The board, he said, would endeavour to find such works within reasonable distances from the main centres because it did not wish to inflict unnecessary hardships on the men by taking them away from their homes or making them travel long distances where that was avoidable. The Minister’s statement was described by the chairman of the committee, Mr E. Si. Andrews, as extremely heartening, although Mr. Smith emphasised that the Unemployment Board could not undertake to find the whole of the funds for such works. The Minister spoke of the need for co-operation by local bodies and individuals of. means and influence and expressed the opinion that such cooperation would quickly break the back of the Dominion’s most pressing problem.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 7
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