SOCIAL SERVICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 11

SOCIAL SERVICE.

TASK AT HOME. (British Official Wireless.) RUG 131', June It. The magnitude of the task confronts in" the Unemployment Assistance Board in creating a new social service for able-bodied unemployed is described in the board’s first annual report Appointed on July 1, 1934, the board was called on to set up within six months more than 300 district offices maned by a staff of over 6000 poisons and to appoint 130 appeal tribunals On the first appointed day, January 7 1935, it was required to assume the responsibility for the transitional payments class, amounting to about 800,000 applicants, who, with then dependants, made a total of about 2600,000 persons. On the second appointed day, March 1, 1930, a further 200,000 applicants were taken over. Lord Rushcliffe, chairman of the board, states in his introduction that no social service on such a large scale has been attempted in this country within such a limited period, hears that the board will prove soulless and bureaucratic have, lie says, piovod Groundless. Many examples are quoted of tho way in which officers have given extra assistance in cases of special need.