RELIEF IN BRITAIN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 22, 9 January 1935, Page 4

RELIEF IN BRITAIN

New Scheme Inaugurated SIR H. BETTERTON’S BOARD British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, Jan. 8. What is described as a new chaptei in the social history of Great Britain opened to-day when the Unemployment Assistance Board began its career as a national authority charged with the maintenance of the welfare of ablebodied unemployed. Sir H. B. Betterton, formerly Minister of Labour, has abandoned his political career to become first chairman of the board. It assumes its functions in two stages From to-day about 750,000 persons receiving transitional payments, which in future will be known as unemployed assistance allowances, come within, its care and in three, months’ time it will take over the responsibility for all able-bodied unemployed men entitled to help from the local public assistance authorities. After that date, upon present estimates, if dependents are included the board will have charge of about 4,000,000 people and will administer about £55,000,000 a year. It will have a staff throughout the country of about 0000 officials.

“NEW DEAL” RELIEF

Budget and Private Industry WASHINGTON, Jau. 8. President Roosevelt’s message to-day put directly up to private industry the task of helping the Government to balance the Budget, stating that tbe deficit may be expected to decl’ne as rapidly as private industry is able to re-employ those now without work. The gross deficit for 1936 will he approximately 4,500,000,000 dollars, representing the cost next fiscal year of putting 3,500,000 persons to work. The regular and emergency expenditures for the first three years of tbe New Deal total 24,206,000,000 dollars, while receipts amount to 10,819,000,000 dollars. The national debt will be raised from 22,500,000,000 to 34,250,000,000 dollars by July 1, 1935.