SCHEME FIVE SUSPENSION

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 5

SCHEME FIVE SUSPENSION

ALARM IN THE SOUTH. “FAMILIES WILL STARVE.” t ______ <Per Press Association. —Copyright.)’ DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr F. W. Mitchell, chairman of the local unemployment committee, has AA'ired the Prime Minister that the suspension of the Scheme No, 5 means the starvation of many families, and urging the Government to I’olloav the usual procedure respecting inadequate authorisation, namely, to allow Avork to proceed and get authority later, under ‘ ‘ unauthorised expenditure. ’ ’ Re the stoppage of the No. 5 scheme, the chairman of the Hospital Board has Avirod to the Hospital Boards’ Association suggesting concerted action to prevent) the inevitable call on boards, for Avhich there is no provision in the estimates.

One local body critic roundly condemned the Government, Avhich he said iiad known for months that the Unemployment Board’s funds Avere giA"ing out, and yet made no provision for the inevitable emergency. The closing of relief AvorkS will make 2500 men idle in Dunedin. A prominent Labour supporter said that if nothing could be done without Parliament, Parliament should be called immediately, , i • ;J i. U.