UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY
**—— —' — WHO IS BEING RELIEVED ? GOVERNMENT OR WORKLESS? (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In n letter to the Unemployment Board renewing the corporation's appeal for a free grant of £2OOO for relief work, the Mayor. Mr. Black, states that the position, briefly, is that people have been taxed 30s to provide work, while the Government has increased the number of unemployed and withdrawn its support in the matter of the subsidy. The unemployment commissioner had replied to the council's request slating that a free grant to a local body from the fund was a considerable extension of anything yet approved by the board, and would probably result in the fund being depleted to such an extent that it would be impossible to carry out effectively relief works in the winter. The commissioner also stated that it was probable the fund at the board's disposal would be considerably less than the amount which the Government had spent annually daring the past two or three years in subsidies only. The Mayor retorts: "This surely means that the Government is being relieved to that extent and the levy is really relieving the Government instead of the unemployed."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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196UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 11
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