UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT.

RELIEF RATES OF PAY. COUNTY COUNCIL’S PROTEST. (Per United Press Association.) ASHBURTON, November 29. The Ashburton County Council is asking the Counties’ Association emphatically to protest against the fixing of 14s a day as the rate of wages on relief works. The council contends that the rate will result in ■ many farm labourers leaving their present positions, and it will be difficult for farmers, to obtain labour at lower wagps since they will be unable to pay more owing to the present financial stringency. If wages are paid on unproductive or uneconomic work the position will tend to become chaotic. Even if the work is only temporary it will fix a standard ot wages which will be difficult to reduce.

CITIZENS’ RELIEF COMMITTEE. The secretary of the Citizens' UnemCommittee acknowledges the following donations:—Sagar and Co., vegetables; Reilly, and Co,, vegetables and fruit; R, Wilson and Co., dried fruit, sheep tongues, and matches; J. Kroon, scones and buns; J. and W. Abbott, •head. A large quantity of clothes, boots, eggs, and jam has been received from anonymous donors. A 10s note was handed in to the secretary, to be used for a particulnr purpose, but those in charge of the irades Hall could not see their way clear to discriminate in this manner, and the money _wil] be used in the ordinary ' va J’* ,^ r O’Donnell has banded over a further sum derived from the sale of tickets for the League football benefit match, bringing the total received from this source up to £2O 11s. The demands on the resources of the Trades Hall depot have been particularly heavy during the past week, and it has been decided to call a meeting of those interested for Monday when ways and means of raising additional funds will be discussed.