TEMPTING RELIEF

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3240, 9 December 1930, Page 5

TEMPTING RELIEF

IMMIGRATION FEARED. INFLUX OF UNEMPLOYED. The necessity for Government action to restrict any influx into New Zealand of unemployed which might follow through the substantial relief of the workless which is to be undertaken in New Zealand, wa? urged by Mr. W. E. S. Knight, chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, at a meeting of the Hospital Boards’ Association in Wellington lats week. Mr. Knight said it would be desirable to be prepared to cope with any move from unemployed who might be enticed from overseas. He pointed out that the residential clause of the Unemployment Act would have the effect of throwing the liability on to hospital boards of indigent new arrivals. The relief which hospital boai’ds hoped to obtain under the Unemployment Act might thereby be cancelled to some extent. The very heavy burden placed on hospital boards on account of outdoor relief caused through unemployment was further discussed. It was considex*ed that pending the framing of the Unemployment Board’s policy and in view of the fact that a remit was going before the hospital boai'ds’ conference in March, further consideration of the question might be deferred.