UNEMPLOYMENT

Southland Times, Issue 20897, 5 October 1929, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT

RELIEF PROPOSALS

RESIDENTIAL STIPULATION ENFORCED

STATEMENT BY PRIME

MINISTER

(Per United Press Association.)

Wellington, October 4

Despite the fact that the major problem of creating avenues of employment for the early placing of unemployed has been dealt with, the Cabinet Committee, which is administering the Government’s unemployment relief proposals, is finding itself fully occupied at meetings which, it is having daily. The Prime Minister announced that it had been decided that it will be necessary to enforce the stipulation that the men engaged must have been resident for three months ‘in the Dominion. “The object of this will be obvious,” said Sir Joseph “as if some such safeguard were not applied there would, in all probability, be an influx of workers from overseas with the result that the position would become worse than if the Government made no attempt to deal with the situation.

“As soon as the regulations are sufficiently complete,” added the Prime Minister, “it will be possible to allocate the men. The object will be to distribute them as far as possible with best advantage to themselves, that is as near to their homes as possible. It will be recognized that this will not be practicable to the extent that the Government would like, but it will be followed wherever it is reasonable to do so.”

REGISTRATIONS.

FIGURES FOR PRINCIPAL CENTRES.

Wellington, October 4,

The unemployed registrations to-day numbered 161 in Wellington, bringing the total to 719. On Monday the total Dominion registrations were 2,466. By Wednesday afternoon the total had increased to 3,728.

The figures for the principal centres for Wednesday, with those for Monday in parentheses,. are as follows:— Auckland 1,055 (812). Wanganui 73 (23). Wellington .558 (274). Christchurch 777 (611). Dunedin 379 (181).