UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD
The big newspapers have adversely critised the Unemployment Board's "try-out" of granting, in a limited area, a scale of pay free to unemployed persons over 50 years of age and partially unfitted for hard work. The criticism may be based on sound lines. That is, that the State is entitled to at least some recompense for the payment made. But it is ungenerous. They did not sing out that the State was at least entitled reasonably fair payment of a rate of wage to the unemployed drafted off to work for applicants who got services without what "thev term now a "fair remuneration.-' The Unemployment Board is justified in their action. It is economically unsound to put the physically unfit on work they are unable to do, when there are men young physically fit. The granting of a bare living to the aged and bent will probably be beneficial to the State as they are at liberty to use their creative knowledge and talents.
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Opunake Times, 16 January 1934, Page 2
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166UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD Opunake Times, 16 January 1934, Page 2
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