HAVE YOU PAID YOUR LEVY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 2

HAVE YOU PAID YOUR LEVY

DUE) THIS MONTH. DELAY ADDS TO EXPENSE. Nearly iv'J- men were prosecuted during January for breaches of the Unemployment Act (chiefly non-pay-ment of the General Unemployment Levy), and all but twelve were fined. The fines ranged from £lB, for an especially glaring case, to five shillings, 'but in many cases the Magistrates marked their sense, of the ' seriousness of the offence by imposing fines of quite substantial amounts. I Lists are now being prepared of those who, if the levies are not quickly paid, will be asked to attend at Court and give an explanation of the delay. Once the lists are handed to the Police the law must take its course; and that involves heavy expense in addition to the penalties and fines provided under the. Act. | The February instalment- of tne : General Unemployment Levy is now ' due, and, in order to escape the possibilty of a penalty, should be paid 1 some time before Ist. March. | Every individual in the community |is feeling the effects of unemployI ment. While nearly 50,000 men are j without work there are very many other people who are in receipt of only a tithe of their pre-slump income, and others who are living pracJtieally from hand to mouth. Prompt payment of the levy would materially 'assist in the efforts to provide work, and the distribution of the meney would of necessity benefit everybody—directly or indirectly. On personal and national grounds, therefore, it is good policy to pay without delay. !'