UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3279, 14 March 1931, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD

SCHEME No. 5 EXTENDED.

TO OPERATE TILL END OF APRIL. "The Unemployment Board's Scheme No. 5 is proving so successful from the point of view of relief of unemployment, and from that of the local bodies of the Dominion," states the Chairman of the Board (Hon. S. G. Smith) "that the Board has decided to allow it to continue in operation until the end of April. This will meet the wishes of a number of local bodies which desire to put in hand work that will extend over several weeks. "In an effort to lesson the concentration of unemployed in the centres of population, the Board is considering various proposals, and it is hoped to evolve schemes that will result in getting large numbers of men employed on useful work in the country. "The advance planning of work by local bodies is another subject that the Board has discussed. The Unemployment Board intends to invite the local bodies of the Dominion to submit proposals covering work three years in advance of their usual schedule.

"The encouragement of reproductive or partly-reproductive work in rural areas is now being planned by the Boad, such schemes as getting returned soldiers' abandoned farms back into profitable productoin, clearing, sub-division, and development of Crown lands, clearing of noxious weeds lands suitable for development, etc., being included in the plans. "The Board is specially concerned in the provision of work during the winter, and it is hoped that particulars with regard to this will be announced later."