THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM
DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT. Press Association—By t Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, My 30. During the discussion on the administration of the Local Government Board's •Estimates several Labour members urged the removal of the stringent conditions governing the expenditure of the unemployed vote of £200,000, owing to the expectation of an unusually distressing winter. Mr Burns, in replying, said that he did wot share -Chose gloomy forebodings. He declared that it was .impossible to administer the unemployed vote so as to satisfy sentimentalists, but (subject to the rules of good finance) Ire promised to throw all the work possible into the ■winter months. Ho expected the report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law system in November, but if that report were as revolutionary'as some feared, it would do as much harm as good.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14281, 1 August 1908, Page 9
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