UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

EFFORTS OF MINISTER FULL TIME WORK AIM (Special to tho Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. Surveying the progress made in the efforts to absorb the unemployed with (he assistance of local authorities subsidised from the employment fund, the Hon. P. C. Webb, the acting-Minister of Labour, expressed appreciation of their ready co-operation. He said hat it had been arranged in the Manawatu district for 250 men to get work while Christchurch, local bodies were providing for 800. Wellington nad openings for 500. There were another 500 being employed on the East Coast from Hawke’s Bay to Gisborne, and 180 in the Wairarapa, 100 on the West Coast of the South Island, while in Central Otago he expected to have 100 jobs which would fully absorb all the suitable men in that district now unemployed. The Minister leaves to-morrow for Auckland, where four days will be spent in negotiations with local bodies. The scheme provides for four months of full-time employment on the rotation principle, and the Minister declared that the unemployed position was being immensely improved.