AID TO WORKLESS
MARRIED MEN FIRST MINISTER’S EXPLANATION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Although the Government scheme to place 7000 men on full time employment at standard rates of pay during the next 12 months, each man to be engaged for four months, applies to married men only, it was emphasised by the acting-Ministcr of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, this morning that plans are being prepared under which single men would be employed on useful works, such as big road jobs and other developmental schemes.
The Minister said that as soon as all able-bodied men bad been absorbed attention would be paid to the problem of the man not physically fit, but capable of lighter employment. Mr. Webb added that, with the return of the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and the Minister ol Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, from the Imperial Conference a review of the whole economic situation would be made as the Cabinet was anxious to stimulate secondary industries which were ol importance to the industrial life of the country.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 15
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