UNEMPLOYMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT

REPLY TO CRITICISM. FULL-TIME WORK. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 7. In a lengthy statement replying to the points of the criticism of the Unemployment Board’s finances, the board states that, although the total number of workers who failed to find employment under normal conditions reached its peak for New Zealand during the past financial year, the number to-day who are in receipt of intermittent relief only under Scheme 5, or arc on sustenance, is the lowest on record since April, 1931. In the majority of cases the effect of the policy of a diversion to full-time employment has been a heavier direct drain on the fund than would have been the case if sustenance were paid. The majority of men placed in fulltime employment, however, have been engaged in reproductive work and have by their employment provided additional employment for others, thus preventing the numbers of unemployed from reaching the high limits which appeared inevitable had any othei course been taken.