PLACEMENT SCHEME

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22911, 19 June 1936, Page 16

PLACEMENT SCHEME

RETURN OF MEN TO NORMAL WORK SUCCESS OF THE PLAN Under the placement scheme introduced by the Employment Division of the Labour Department, one of the most ambitious of the plans devised to place in their usual trades or occupations men who are receiving relief assistance and other men who desire help in obtaining private employment, 705 men have been transferred from relief or meagre casual and unrernunerntive work to permanent or well-paid casual employment in sis weeks. The permanent placements are slightly more numerous than those of a casual nature.

Official return*? of total placements show the following figures;— Tern- Per-

Such has been the initial success of this plan for discovering worthwhile jobs and the men to fill them, says an official announcement, that the cordiality of its reception by employers is not only a tribute to the efficiency of its organisation, but an augury that the widening of its scope of operations will probably later be necessary. The scheme is based on the belief that it is nece.-sary to give normal private employment an opportunity to function, and that there is no other way of permanently bringing about a decrease in unemployment.

porary. inanent. Total Wellington .. 72 110 182 Christchurch 43 21 64 Invercargill .. 13 43 38 Auckland .. 14 43 57 Dunedin .. .. 34 21 55 Nelson .. 17 27 44 Timaru .. 20 20 40 Masterton .. 19 18 37 Lower Hutt .. 23 0 29 Napier .. 13 14 27 Oarnaru .. .. 23 2 25 I’etonc .. IS 2 20 Hamilton .. 7 9 Hi Greyinouth .. 13 2 15 Palmerston N... 5 9 14 Gisborne .. .. 9 1 10 Whangarei .. 1 3 6 New Plymouth 2 1 ■3 Wanganui .. 2 1 3 348 357 705