CONSIDERED BY CABINET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 September 1921, Page 5

CONSIDERED BY CABINET.

INDIVIDUAL DOLES

BY CABLE-PSESS ASSOCIATION -COPYEIGHT LONDON, Sept. 13. The Cabinet committee upon unemployment had a long conference. They considered the Labour Exchange's report that 1,527,000 were wholly unemployed, and about 400,000 were working short time. A total of 290,000 have exhausted their unemployment benefits, being out of work for more than 22 weeks, but will be entitled to a further sixteen weeks from November 2. Cabinet decided that there must be no extension of individual doles, which -was the worst means of relieving unemployment. The committee recommend assistance to local authorities out of the Treasury, and it is understood they contemplate thus spending £10,----000,000. The committee discussed a large road scheme 'as .a means of reliev. ing: the situation.