BUILDING TRADE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 174, 24 June 1932, Page 2

BUILDING TRADE.

MEASURES FOR RELIEF WORK

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON June 23. Several anomalies and differences of opinion concerning the operation of the schemo for subsidising tho wages of unemployed workers in the building industry hav'e been adjusted as the result of a discussion between representatives of employers and employees in the building industry and unemployment officers. Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates announced today that the Unemployment Board had heard the representatives of all concerned and tho anomalies which appeared in the first draft of the scheme had been straightened out. The subsidy will bo payablo to an owner who is responsible for putting work in hand and not to the builder, although the certificate of the building contractor as to tho amount expended in wages will still bo a necessary feature. The rules have been amended t-o provide that on larger jobs where (a building contractor will undoubtedly be engaged the subsidy will only be payable on eighty per cent of the men engaged on tlie job. The rate will be 8s 4d per £ with a maximum of 25s per man per week. On smaller jobs the subsidy will remain at 6s 8d in the £ of tho wages paid with a maximum of 21s 6d for any one man in any one week. Mr Coates says building work should not be considered in any sense as a relief job. The Unemployment Board has just come into it with a subsidy to give the necessary incentive for work to bo gone on with now instead of being postponed.