INTERMITTENT RELIEF

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 7 April 1934, Page 6

INTERMITTENT RELIEF

Lowest Number Since 1931 BOARD REPLIES TO CRITICISM (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April 7. In a lengthy statement replying to points of criticism of the Unemploy, meat Board’s finances, the board states that although the total number of workers who failed to find employment under normal conditions reached its peak for New Zealand during the past financial year, the number to-day who are in receipt of intermittent relief only under scheme 5 or are oa sustenance is the lowest on record since April, 1931. In }he majority of the cases, the board states, the effect of the policy of a diversion to full-time employment has been a heavier direct drain on the fund than would have been the case if sustenance were paid. The majority of men placed in full-time employment, however, have been engaged in reproductive work and have, by their employment, provided additional employment for others, thus preventing numbers of unemployed from reaching high limits, which appeared inevitable had any other course been taken.