UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22052, 7 September 1933, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

LOCAL ACTIVITIES ALLOCATION OF WORK The following groups engaged under the No. 5 scheme will commence at 8 o’clock this morning:— WORKS DEPARTMENT. G2 —Wharf street, at tip. 63—Green Island aerodrome site (meet Caver sham railway station at 7.55 a.m.). 04 —The following men of group 04 at Bible College, Patmos avenue, a-quarter of a mile from Leith Valley road: J. Baird, R. A. K. Beal, S. W. M. Braine, A. Downes, E. T. Downes, G. H. Elliott, S. J. Gray, M. J. Hislip, J. Laing, T. H. Smith. 04 — the balance of group 04 at Jarvis's farm, Patmos avenue, one mile above Malvern street (arrive 8.10 a.m.). 05— Campbell’s road, at tool box, threequarters of % mile beyond Watts road (arrive 8.20 a.m.). 00—The following men of group 00 at Fraser’s road, at sanitary stables: J. Allison, G. G. Anderson, E. J. Bruce, J. Coory, W. E. Currie, W. Downie, A. Harrison, G. Jager. CO—The balance of group 00 at Dean street, at Taieri road. 07— Newport street, at Kenmure road. 08— M‘Leod’s farm, North Taieri road, near Ashburn Hall. 09— The following men of group 09 at Kearney’s farm, Malvern street, half a mile above Patmos avenue: F. T. Ayers, ,W. G. Baker. 09 —Balance of group 09 at Pine Hill road-at Gladstone road. 71 —Ross Creek reservoir. 75 —Green Island aerodrome site (meet Caversham railway station, 7.55 a.m.). 78 —Stafford street, at Alva street. 85—Murphy’s farm, Patmos avenue, one mile above Malvern street (arrive 5.15 a.m.). 87 — Leith Valley road, a-quarter mile about Patmos avenue. 88 — Water of Leith above King street bridge. 90 —W. E. Fox’s farm, Barr street. 808 —York place, opposite Tennyson | street. I 808a —York place, opposite Tennyson i street. : RESERVES DEPARTMENT. I Groups will report for work at 8 o’clock this morning as under:— 294, 008, 700 —At Opoho football ground. 93, 705 —At the Stadium. 80—At Chisholm park. UNEMPLOYMENT STAMPS FOUND A considerable number of unemployment stamps have been found and the police are at present endeavouring to find an owner for these. Inquiries should bo made at the detective office. MOSGIEL UNEMPLOYED "At last night’s meeting of the Mosgiel Borough Council, the Minister of Employment (Mr A. Hamilton) wrote as follows; —“In reply to the council’s application that the same treatment be accorded to the Mosgiel unemployed as that given to the unemployed workers in Dunedin, I have to advise that the board regrets that it is not possible, for financial and other reasons, to bring the Mosgiel district on to the same scale

as obtained in Dunedin or even to extend further the city scale of relief. The board’s policy is to provide substantially equal allocations where the local conditions and the costs of running a household are comparable, and on this basis the Mosgiel allocation is the same as that made to other similar places. After reviewing the allocation for Mosgiel, the board regrets that it is unable to make any further provision at the present time.” It was decided again to write to the Minister explaining that Mosgiel was not on the same basis as other suburban areas, and to ask that the scale be increased accordingly. The council stressed the point that the. unemployed resident in a town like Mosgiel did not have advantages that the city unemployed man possessed in the matter of the purchasing power of his earnings. Mr Ansell, M.P., notified the council that he was keeping in touch with the Minister of Employment regarding the claim of Mosgiel’s unemployed.