SCHOOL MAINTENANCE
BY RELIEF LABOUR. REFUSAL BY MINISTER. Pei- Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 25, “If the Unemployment Board admits the principle of allowing relief labour to do ordinary maintenance work we are gone,” said Hon. A. Hamilton (Minister of Unemployment), when replying to a school committees’ deputation which asked him to allow No. 5 scheme men to be used on school maintenance work.
The deputation said that some school grounds had been so much developed that their maintenance was costly and, as,the committees were dependent on donations and the proceeds of concerts, etc., they were finding finance very difficult. Returns from concerts had fallen 50 per cent. Moreover, the committees had to finance free hot drinks for the children in the winter.
The Minister said that if people were allowed to use relief labour for works which should bo done in the ordinary way it merely created unemployment. If the school committees could show they were not receiving sufficient funds that was another issue, but the Unemployment Board was not to blame.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 8
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