SICK UNEMPLOYED
Further Concessions To Be Made HARDSHIP REVEALED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 6. A further concession to the unemployed was announced to-day by the Minister of Labour, Ron. H. T. Armstrong. At the present time, he said, a worker on relief or sustenance who became ill ceased to be a charge upon the employment fund till after one week of illness. He then became a charge upon the local Hospital Board. Representations had been made to him, said the Minister, of cases of extreme hardship, where a man was ill for more than a week. Until more adequate provision could be made for such cases by hospital boards, or something done by way of invalidity pensions, tho employment division * of the Labour Department would carry men for three weeks of their illness.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 147, 6 June 1936, Page 5
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