FINDING WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 March 1934, Page 2

FINDING WORK

FEILDING PROPOSALS (By Telegraph—Press Association) FEILDING, 27th March, A sub-committee of the Feilding Chamber of Commence, set iup. recently to confer with representatives of the Feilding relief workers on unemployment matters in Feilding. reported at last night’s meeting of the chamber. The sub-committee placed before the chamber the following suggests from the unemployed with a-'recommenda-tion that they should be placed ,ba fore the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, member of the district: — “That the Unemployment Board make grants in approved cases to enable relief workers to start in business. ~ J v “That a means test‘be applied to those applying for subsidies for moneys paid to relief workers under the No. 10, 4a, and 4b schemes. “That the ‘over-the-fencc’ No. 5 scheme be abolished. “That the Government be requested to inaugurate a publicity campaign appealing to all employers of labour to re-employ as many as possible without a subsidy from the board. “That the Government he- requested to invite applications from unemployed men who desire to go on the land,, and that such men be placed in groups on undeveloped or partly-developed land, the men to be paid for work done and have the right to take up a section when the land is sufficiently developed to permit of farming operations being carried on. “That the Government he urged to adopt a system of compulsory acquisition of land suitable for small farm, settlement as a means of reducing unemployment. “That the Government bo urged to inquire into the possibilities of the Angora rabbit industry as a means of reducing unemployment.”