UNEMPLOYMENT RELHEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT RELHEY

WELLINGTON FACES SERiOii* PROBLEM DEMANDS TOO HEAVY I Press Association WELLINGTON, Today Unemployment is becoming 80 lin the city that it is questionable I whether the Wellington Hospital Board j wm bo able to continue meeting heavy demands for maintenance. This statement was made at a nice*. | ing: of the board yesterday by I chairman of the social welfare com. mittee. Mr. G. Petherick, who reported that during the period from April y | to May 6 a total of 452 cases had i attended to. of which 127 were new , cases. A total of t*39 cases remained j on the committee’s hands at the end of the period. Of these 175 were due to unemployment which aft* ted 796 p? r . sons. Cash grants hud totalled £*7l Reference to the City Councils efforts to interview the Prime Minis. > ter in regard to unemployment wa® ! made by Mr. M. F. Luckie tßeputv. . Mayor) at a meeting of the couniiL | Mr. Buckie said the council’s repre. sentations concerning the relief of un. employment would be considered by j Cabinet today and the proposals made ;by the works committee for relief would bo dealt with when Cabinet gave some satisfaction. ; It had been difficult to approach th« Government owing to the unsettled state of politics. Overtures had been I made to the Minister of Labour and ; it was expected that an answer would bo received from Cabinet at an early date.