WORKING OF BRITISH DOLE
ROYAL commission set up BORROWING ROWERS INCREASED. DEBT £40,000,0(0 KOBE YEARLY, / • By Telegraph—Press Asan.— Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. - London, Dec. 2. The appointment of a Royal’ Commission to inquire into the working of unemployment insurance under the chair? manship of Judge Holman Gregory was announced in the House of Commons last night by Mr, Philip Snowden., ■ The Minister of Labour, .Miss Mar? garet Bondfield, moved an increase of the unemployed insurance fund’s borrowing powers by £10,000,000 to £70.0000,000. The fund’s debt is now £56,000,000 and is increasing at the rate of £40,000,000 ii year. The total of benefits plus the cost of interest andjidministration is £107,000,000 a year. ’The motion was carried by 274 votes to 214.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1930, Page 9
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