EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21805, 21 May 1934, Page 11

EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS

POSITION IN AUCKLAND MINISTER'S PENDING VISIT [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Saturday The Unemployment Board has had a conference with the Minister, Hon. A. Hamilton, at which the financial position for the year was made available, enabling the board to complete its plans for the winter period. Palmerston North and Auckland are two centres in which problems of administration are most urgent, and Mr. Hamilton proposes to give these points his personal attention. He will be in Palmerston North on Tuesday, and a few days later he will go to Auckland.

ORDER FOR MEN FOR OAMP FEW DAYS' SUSPENSION [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] PALMERSTON NORTH. Sunday Local unemployed, in support of a protest against an order for 50 men to go to the Opepe afforestation camp, Kaingaroa Plains, waited on the certifying officer of the Labour Departm.ent and Mr. J. A. Nash. M.P,, yesterday, presenting a resolution carried at an anti-camp meeting. Mr. Nash promised to ask the Minister of Employment, Hon. A. Hamilton, to suspend the camp order until a deputation interviewed him/

Later Mr. Nash spoke by telephone to the Minister, who agreed that the order regarding camps should stand over until he visited Palmerston North on Tuesday, when he will meet a deputation of six representatives of the workers. The Minister also promised to make a statement on the sustenance scheme.