PARTIALLY UNFIT MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 12

PARTIALLY UNFIT MEN.

ATTITUDE OF THE BOARD.

TREATING CASES ON MERITS. HOSPITAL BOARD'S ATTITUDE. The attitude the Auckland Hospital Board intends to take up in respect to men classified as partially unfit- by the Unemployment- Board was outlined by Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital Board, last evening. "The Hospital Board will treat -every case on its merits, but it will not bo dictated to by the Unemployment Board's classification of the men," he said. A circular letter had been received by his beard from the unemployment authorities stating that the B2 classification—"men fit for light work in town only"—comprised mostly aged and incapacitated, such as one-armed, men. While {he Hospital Board admitted its responsibility for looking after incapacitated men, it was not going to leave the Unemployment Board to judge what men came under its liability. Mr. Wallace added that he had received a telegram from the secretary of the Wellington Hospital Board stating that it had been decided to abide by the arrangement niada at the hospital boards' con-ference-—to provide for C class men only —that is, men not fit for work of any kind.

The secretary of the Hospital Boards' Association in Wellington was instructed by Mr. Wallace to advise the Unemployment. Board that the Auckland board wouid deal with each case on its merits.

DOMINION REGISTRATIONS. INCREASE OF 202 FOR WEEK. TOTAL NUMBER NOW 54,342. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Friday. An increase of 202, bringing the tola] to 54.542, is shown by the unemployment registrations for tho week ended June 27. In addition, there are 10,950 men employed under schemes other than No. 5. and other men, numbering 8679, employed as at June 18 by the Public Works Department on road construction maintenance and on certain* other works normally conducted by this department. Of these, 2144 are paid partly from the funds of the department and partly by the Unemployment Board. This makes a total of 67,416 dependent wholly or partly on the Unemployment Board. This number approaches the estimate of 70,000 given a few days ago by the Minister of Employment, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates. For the week ended June 20 the registrations totalled 54,140, an increase of 18 compared with the previous week.