UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 14

UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM

EMPLOYMENT OF BOYS / ' AUCKLAND ACTIVITIES I ■WEEK'S APPEAL FOR FUNDS A week's appeal for funds for the Auckland Boys' Employment Committee will < commence, to-day. The purpose of the organisation is to provide means of em- 1 ploying youths aged between 15 and 20. In a statement issued yesterday on behalf of the committee, it was pointed out 1 that the organisation had been successful in placing more than 600 boys and, should the results of the campaign for funds fulfil expectations, hundreds more would be found occupations. The project has the support of numbers of important organisations in Auckland and the executive of the City Central Progress League decided this week to ask members to co-operate with the committee. The committee is comprised of representatives of the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League, Auckland Rotary Club, Auckland branch of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Church of England Immigration Committee, Real 'Estate Institute, Young Men's Christian, Association, British Isles Association, Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association, Chamber of Commerce, Overseas League, Auckland Education Board, Auckland Grammar Schools' Board and Auckland Headmasters Association. The members of tho executive of the committee feel that the public recognises the importance of finding employment for boys. It is proposed to get into touch with the many unemployed youths, whose numbers, it is expected, will be considerably augmented with the close of the school year. Owing to the lack of means the work so far has been confined to placing boys principally in situations with farmers, and, while this work is to be continued, it is proposed to extend the activities to practical training in agriculture and industry. Work has been commenced in these directions by the establishment of a selection camp "in agriculture at £>t. John's College, Meadowbank, and the holding of technical classes with • the assistance of the Education Board and the Seddon Memorial Technical College board-of managers. Among the organisations assisting in the campaign are the Boy Scouts' Association, the, Interhouso Girls' Association and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Numbers of displays, including a fireworks demonstration and wrestling and boxing exhibitions by searchlight, have been arranged. A naval concert, band recitals, garden fetes and bridge parties will also be held to assist the campaign, and, on October 1, the final day, 1000 workers will be.engaged in a house-to-house collection .covering Greater. Auckland. GRIEVANCES AT WAIHI CRITICISM OF ALLOCATION {bt telegraph—own correspondent] "WAIHI, Friday Grievances of Waihi relief workers were ventilated at a public meeting convened by the Mayor, Mr. W. M. Wallnutt, last evening.. 1 It was contended by speakers that assurances by the Minister o;i Employment that men in country districts would be placed on the same footing as urban "workers in regard to allocations and discontinuance of the stand-down week had not been carried into effect and that the present allocation to Waihi of approximately £99 a month was not sufficient to make ends meet, particularly in cases of married men with families. A resolution was unanimously adopted protesting against differentiation in the treatment,of unemployed in the cities and thdse in the country, and asking that equal facilities be given to country relief workers.