RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 June 1927, Page 12

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED.

GOVERNMENT’S ASSISTANCE. SUBSIDIES TO LOCAL BODIES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 14. Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister of Labour) to-day outlined the furthei directions in which the Government was prepared to move to relieve unemployment, The Government has decided to subsidise £1 for £1 moneys borrowed for the sole purpose of tho relief of unemployment provided tho works have not been included in any schedule of works for which a loan hasbeen raised by the local authority. The same subsidy wilDalso be paid for voluntary subscriptions by private persons provided these have been handed over to local bodies to be expended upon approved relief works. Where counties, road boards, or other local bodies in rural loans for the relief of unemployment the Government will consider each application on its merits and where approved grant £1 for £1 upon tho total cost of the work. Parliament will be ashed to extend the operation of the Act passed last year to enable local bodies to raise loans for tho relief of unemployment. No work will ho subsidised in a city, borough or town district unless 60 per cent of tho estimated cost is to be paid for labour on actual work done. The Government will subsidise such approved works up to 50 per cent of the cost of the labour based on 12s a day for married men and 9s a day for single men.