UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1931, Page 15

UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES

TO COMMENCE IMMEDIATELY.

DEVELOPMENT WORK ON FARMS.

The Unemployment Board’s Nos. 4a and 4b schemes, providing respectively for the placing of unemployed men, both married and single on farms, and for the subsidising of contract labour for developmental work on farms, are novy m operation, according to advice received by the North Taranaki unemployment committee yesterday from the Minister of Labour, the Hon. S. G. Smith. The following conditions govern scheme 4a: — ~ I “Workers who have been resident in New Zealand for six months and have paid their contributions to the Unemployment Fund, or have been granted exemption by the board, and are unemployed, and have been registered as such for 14 days at the labour exchanges, or, where no labour exchanges exist, at the post offices, are eligible for employment under this scheme as long as it is in operation. Ordinary employees must not be discharged to take advantage of this offer. . “Workers will be engaged for periods from four to 26 weeks, farmers having the right to discharge men at any time for unsatisfactory work or conduct. . “The Unemployment Board will subsidise the wages agreed upon between employer and employee, at the following rates: —

15s per week for single men. 25s per week for married men. “Farmers are to provide free board and lodging or housing were necessary, and means or cost of transport to the farm to take up the work.” Scheme 4b, which ic complementary to 4a, will be operated as follows: — “Applications for farm-development work by contract labour will be received for the following classes of work: Bushfelling, scrub-cutting, rush-grubbing, stumping and logging,' drainage, dealing noxious weeks, fencing and developmental work of a similar nature. “The Unemployment Board will grant a subsidy for labour, only to the extent of 33 1-3 per cent., the total subsidy not to exceed £7is in any one case. The farmer must bear all the cost of any materials involved. “Under both schemes, farmers are required to make their own arrangements regarding workers’ compensation insurance. No liability rests with the Unemployment Board in this respect.” Men who are prepared to accept work under scheme 4a and farmers who are prepared to engage labour under scheme 4b, are urged to get in touch immediately with the North Taranaki Unemployment committee at the Government Labour Office, New Plymouth, either by personal interview or by written application.