HELPING UNEMPLOYED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20779, 23 January 1931, Page 13

HELPING UNEMPLOYED.

LOCAL BODY ASSISTANCE.

APPEAL BY THE BOARD.

NO SLACKENING OF EFFORT.

[ci TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. In an appeal to local bodies, the Unemployment Board states that not only should there be no slackening of local bodies' efforts, but that they should be increased to the greatest extent of their resources. Co-ordination with the board's elforts and thj determination on the part of each local body to do its share in prompting schemes to provide work were main essentials in the relief of distress.

Some local bodies' applications for subsidies for public works had been refused and the local authorities were feeling somewhat unsympathetic with the board in consequence, but in all cases there had been sound reason for tho refusal. Either tho application had been made after the total grant had been allocated or the work was a profit-earning venture or the application was 011 account of ordinary maintenance work which would have to be done in any case by the local body's own staff. Many millions of pounds would bo required to meet all demands made on the board's limited funds.

MARCH OF UNEMPLOYED. PROTEST TO THE BOARD. There was another demonstration by unemployed in Auckland yesterday. A procession marched up Queen Street and along Karangahapo Road and Pitt Street to the Trades Hall, where a meeting Mas held. In reply to an inquiry from the Auckland Unemployed Workers' Association, a letter was received from the Commissioner of Unemployment stating that the Unemployment Board was making considerable progress with its schemes for relief. The meeting decided to make another protest against the board's inaction.

RELIEF OF DISTRESS. MANY CASES DEALT WITH. 0%-er 500 applications for relief came before the Relief Committee of the Auckland Hospital Board at its meeting yesterday. Of this total, 322 applications were on" account of lack of work, 67 were due to sickness, 17 because of insufficient means of support and 19 on account of old age. Most of tho cases were dealt with by grants of food.

OTAHUHU COMMITTEE. SUM OF £IOO EXPENDED. Two allocations of £SO have been expended by tho Otahuhu Unemployment Committee and a third allocation of £SO was received from the Unemployment Board yesterday. Offers ot work have steadily increased since tho beginning of the month as farmers and residents have come to learn tho provisions of tho No. 2 scheme.

The committee ha?; requested Mr. A. VV. Hall, M.P. for Hauraki, to ascertain the board's intentions regarding the closing date of the scheme and also what further schemes, if any, it desires local committees to administer.

GATHERING COCKSFOOT SEED. OPPORTUNITY AT TE AROIIA. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] TE AROHA, Thursday. The sum allotted trt Te Aroha under scheme No. 2 for subsidising casual labour has been exhausted, but the local committee is endeavouring to secure authority for further expenditure in this direction. A number of district farmers are now offering work on the subsidy basis. Cocksfoot still abounds in the district and the Mayor has arranged for daily transport for any group of men desiring to exploit this means of earning money. As a result of the subsidy being granted for the cemetery impiovement scheme, six men are now engaged in cleaning and forming the paths and flanking areas.

MEN SENT FROM GISBORNE. WORK READY AT MURUPARA. (BI TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ROTORUA, Thursday. The men who have been transferred from tho Gisborne railway,are arriving. They are to be engaged on the roadwork and development operations round Muru para. Accommodation is being provided for more than 200 men. Sufficient work has been laid out by the engineers to enable them to st-irt immediately.

SUBSIDY ON WAGES.

GRANT TO WHANGAREI

[by TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WHANG ARE!, Thursday.

Under the No. 2 scheme of the Unemployment .Board, a further allocation of £SO has been made to the Whangarei district. This is for subsidising wages.

MORE WORK AT OPOTIKI. FURTHER GRANT FROM BOARD. fnv t ei. Ec; n.\ nr.—own correspondent.] OPOTIKI. Thursday. Word has been received by the Opotiki Unemployment Committee that a furl her grant of £3O lias been made under the No. 2 scheme, which will enable the committee to put more men to work. Several applications for labour were received from people iri the town and country, but there are still a fair number of men without work.