SUBSIDY SCHEMES

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1692, 3 January 1936, Page 7

SUBSIDY SCHEMES

TO PROVIDE WORK

What the Board Has Done

The far-reaching about by the building and other.. Subsidies for constructional -work, which i have, been introduced' by the Unemployment Board, . are. not. generally^ -realised. ; ■ ;:;--. The present building scheme /for dwellings was commenced in July, 1934, and it* resulted in an innnediate increase in v- - operations throughout the Dominion. Shortly after, buildings such as churches, Sunday schools, libraries and halls, to which no private gain is attached, were added to the scheme. In- the early part of the present -year a supplementary scheme was introduced covering extensions and alterations to dwellings and painting same,- including also the churches and otherings mentioned abdve. A ilittle'Jater subsidies were introduced upon theconstruction of approved buildings,arid for the installation‘of certain mai chinery and equipment of domestic manufacture used id the dairy industry, and quite recently this class of subsidy has been extended to cover structures and equipment required for piggeries associated with dairy farming. , , . , , -' ■

A further extension of the princi- 1 pie of subsidising certain industries to expand employment has now been made by which approved farm buildings, implements and machinery are included in the provision for sub- [ sidies. The agricultural implement 5 trade has been in a depressed state ! for some years, so the inclusion of the ; manufacturers of this industry in the subsidy scheme will go; far in bringing hack into steady employment many workers who have been waiting for” tetter times. At least fifty trades and oceupa-.., tions are how affected by the stimulus

given by the Unemployment Board, not taking into account professional and clerical workers. . The total value of work completed and in. hand-.under the schemes men?’ tioned above from July,' 1934, to the end of October, 1935, reaches the impressive total of £5,300,000. Tlhe total value of-. wages paid in the A^Tw-.Wtn^ia amounts to aprt ? dieates the great additip£ in purchas- ; " ing power which has been given: to an army of who have been retained in employment under - <me or, . othfeif' "fl»e schemes,:;With; the;gd_i >... vent of. the present spring, by which time the benefits - of • schemes have 'betohie better - known, the-’volume of works-being put,-in;fcand is- increasing; -The total number. of; . subsidised new dwellings approved under . the. present; scheme ndw amounts., tq 7,000,, and the stimliius given to. trades 'associated td - bunding is. indicated by the fact that 6,040 porcelain ‘IL629 1 electric \ ranges,. and 1,752 gas ranges of domestic ’mdriufhcttfre.have, been installed in 'dwellings* » ; influence all the tradejHConne.Cted with the ■ Btrilding, engineering, -and asso- - (dated industries,.'with the result that the beneficial effects are being spread throughout our industrial and com- ' mercial structure. Full information regarding the operation of the ■ .Unemployment Board's building schemes may be obtained from the local Employment Bureau.