N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1931, Page 4

N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

OVER 47,200 REGISTERED

illy Telegraph—Per Vress Association)

■WELLINGTON, July 17

The unemployed registrations in, New Zealand tor the week ended' July 13th constituted a new record. The total number of registrations at Labour Bureaux was 47,203, as compared with 46,359 in the previous week, an increase of 881. In an accompanying statement, the ,Labour Minister, Mr Smith, says : The apparent increase in the unemployed is 884. The number of men who qualified under the. Number Five Schema, and were placed..in, work totalled 33,557. There were 4,500 engaged under the 4A Scheme,' and ,70U under the 48. The total number for whom no work was found was 8446, but probably the majority of these, added the Minister, were not eligible for employment under the Board’s rationing scheme, wh le the others could not be suitably placed on account of physical disability. hospital board troubles. AUCKLAND,.. July 17. i If unemployed single men have' a satisfactory room in ; which to sleepj the relief committee of the -Auckland Hospital Board undertakes to ; gl'allt Such men stores to the value ■ of six shillings weekly. Relief will be given. while the men are working, The Committee decided not to P a y rents. The scheme provides _ for the alternative to sending to 1 the City Mission’s night shelter unemployed single men who can not find accommodation elsewhere. WELLINGTON, July 16. A special meeting of the W filing' ton Hospital Board was held to-day. to cons’der the financial position. Mainly owing to the mounting cost of unemployment relief there will be a considerable deficit at the end of the financial year. The chairman (Mr F. Castle\ announced that probably by the end of .September the Board would be unable to finance any further expenditure on unemployment relief. If the present rate of expenditure and receipts continue, the deficiency at the end of next March would be £31,000. : The . following resolution, ’.submitted by the general committee, was considered. . .That the Committee recommends the Hospital Board to agree to a scheme being put forward to the Government as a matter for urgent attention with the object of ra.sing money to meet the probable hospital deficiency; (2) Motor taxation; or both; or any other scheme considered advisable, after consultation with the 'Prime Minister and khe Minister ol Health, by the sub-committee.

This motion and an amendment in similar terms were defeated; and a committee was appointed to. wait on the PrimeMinister' and the Minister of Health, to place the financial position before thorn,