“SINGLE MEN SHOULD SHIFT FOR THEMSELVES”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 355, 12 September 1933, Page 5

“SINGLE MEN SHOULD SHIFT FOR THEMSELVES”

Country Cannot Stand Further Taxation for Unemployment

NO POSSIBILITY OF PROVIDING EXTRA DAY’S WORK A WEEK No. 5 Scheme Not to be Regarded as Permanent Work Press Association—Copyright. Eltham, Today. that the country could not stand any more taxation U for relief, Mr. J, S. Jessop, deputy chairman of the Unemployment Board, who is at present making a hurried tour of Taranaki, told the Eltham Committee that, taking the total at say seventy would cost another £1,820,000 to provide one extra day’s work per man per week. There was definitely no chance of increase in the allocation. It might be decreased as summer came on if work was offering. The State could not afford to find relief for the single man, who should shift for himself.

The board wished to got back to normality as soon as the opportunity occurred.

It was always difficult to retrace ones steps but it had to be done for New Zealand to face the present situation as a pcrmauanency could not be contemplated. Sometimes it was inferred that the No 5 scheme was permanent employment. It was not and as soon as the country was of opinion the ordinary work was offering then the country would not bo prepared to keep men on the No 5 or any other scheme. In answer to a question Mr Jessop said he could cite any number of cases, where useful work was offered and the Board had been told that tinmen preferred remain on the No. 5 scheme.

Mr Jessop was very cordially received in Eytham by the local unemployment committee. It is understood that an important statement affecting relief work will be made by Mr Jessop very shortly.