HELPING UNEMPLOYED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21467, 15 April 1933, Page 9

HELPING UNEMPLOYED

! NEW NATIONAL SCHEME GENERAL WELFARE INCLUDED OUTLINE OF BRITISH BILL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 14, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, April 13 The Minister of Health, Sir.E. Hilton Young, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that before the end of the session the Government would introduce a bill dealing on a national basis with the problem of assistance for those who are in need of it, including those who have been insured against unemployment, but are no longer so insured. It would be the primary purpose of the bill to make a close connection between work giving help, and work promoting the physical and mental welfare of the unemployed by training for occupations and recreation. The bill would establish a measure of national control. It would redistribute the duties of local authorities and the central Government. ]n relation to the assistance from the funds of local authorities or the Exchequer, one of the bases of this redistribution would be that the central Government would accept responsibility, both administrative and financial, for assisting all able-bodied unemployed who needed assistance. The Government had adopted an amendment to a censure motion, accepting responsibility for the assistance of all able-bodied unemployed under 65 years of age, with such readjustments in financial relations between the Exchequer and the local authorities as was reasonable, having regard to the necessities in distressed areas.