NO. 13 SCHEME MEN
RELEASE ORDERED all single workers TRANSFER TO CAMPS [by telegraph—own correspondent | GISBORNE. Wednesday An indication of the Government's intention to reduce the number of men employed by local bodies under unemployment relief schemes was contained in a letter received at to-dav's t meeting of the Cook County Council from the Employment Promotion Department. The letter advised that all single men and married men separated from their wives were to be transferred from local body work to land development camps near Auckland and Te Kuiti and the forestry camp near Rotorua.
"Every man who can possibly be released within reason is to be withdrawn from No. 13 scheme work under local employing authorities," the letter stated. "These men are to be sent forward to laud development and forestry work. "The fares of the men to the location of the works will be payable by this department. If men to whom work is offered decline to accept without good and sufficient reason they should be treated as voluntarily unemployed." The letter was received by the council without comment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23273, 16 February 1939, Page 12
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