STAND-DOWN RELIEF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 94, 4 April 1934, Page 9

STAND-DOWN RELIEF

Securing Private Employment WORKERS NOT PENALISED By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 3. The guiding principles observed by tho Unemployment Board in giving relief to relief workers who obtain employment during their stand-down days were explained by Mr W, Bromley, a member of the Unemployment Board, to-day. The board, he said, did not wish to penalise the efforts made by relief workers to seoure private employment. Instructions issued to all certifying officers stated that where such private employment was limited to casual work of a non-recur-ring nature, the earning therefrom should he ignored in determining the measure of relief for which the worker was eligible. It must be recognised as the duty of every applicant for relief to first exhaust every possibility of meeting his personal obligation to support his family by securing employment if at all possible. The board o n innumerable occasions had insisted that no appli* cant should refuse an offer of private employment, and in cases where offers hud been known to be refused further relief had heen discontinued.