UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20725, 19 November 1930, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD.

APPOINTMENTS MADE.

GOVERNMENT NOMINEES.

TWO AUCKLAND MEMBERS.

LABOUR'S REPRESENTATIVES.

[BV TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.

Tho personnel of tho Unemployment Board was announced to-night by the Minister of Labour, Hon. S. G. Smith. Ho said tho Governor-General had approved of tho following to be members of the board which is to assist in the administration of tho Unemployment Act passed during tho recent session: — Government Nominees.—Hugh Blako Burdekin, public accountant, Wellington, and George Finn, merchant, Auckland. Primary Industries.—Patrick James Small, farmer, Kairanga.

Secondary Industries. —Francis Leigh Hutchinson, company secretary, Christchurch.

Workers' Organisations.—Walter Bromley, president of the Trades and Labour Council, Wellington, and Oscar Mcßrine, waterside worker, Auckland. New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association.—Walter Edmund Leadley, secretary, Christchurch. Tho appointments will date from Thursday and are for a term of two years. Mr. Burdekin will bo deputy-chairman of the board, the Minister being chairman. The first meeting of members will bo held in Wellington on Tuesday. WATERSIDERS' ATTITUDE. PR ESI DENT'S NOMIN A 'HON. There was an attendance of between 200 and 300 at a special meeting of members of the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union, held during the lunch hour yesterday in tho watersiders* waiting room on tho Central Wharf. The meeting was called for the "purpose of requesting the president of the union, Mr. Oscar McBrino, to explain why ho had allowed himself to be nominated for a seat on the Unemployment Board about to be set up.

The union, which is affiliated to the Alliance of Labour, had, in common with other organisations associated with the alliance, decided to take no part in the setting up of the board, on the grounds that the workers were not to be allowed to select their own representatives on that board. It was contended that Mr. McBrine had allowed his name to go forward for selection, contrary to the wishes of his union.

The meeting lasted for about half &n hour and as no finality had been reached tho proceedings were adjourned. No details of the proceedings were made available for publication, both the president and the secretary, Mr. Jf. Hillier, stating that tho business discussed related to union affairs only.