SUBSIDISED RELIEF WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1932, Page 8

SUBSIDISED RELIEF WORK

QUESTION OF ABILITY TO PAY. ' DISCUSSION AT STRATFORD. The question whether relief workers should be granted to employers who are in a position to employ men without the subsidy was raised at the meeting oi the Stratford Unemployment Committee last night. , , . ■> The Railway Department, having decided to remove a portion of the bank from the section adjoining the railway crossing at the showgrounds, the. Stratford A. and P. Association applied for the services of about 10 men under the No. 5 scheme to load earth into lorries to be used for filling-in purposes on the grounds. If they were available the association also asked for two or three men to undertake tree planting at the grounds. “It seems to me that the association should be able to employ the men without a subsidy, sand the chairman, Mr. T. R. Anderson. “When a body has as much money as the association has I think it should relieve unemployment,” said Mr. P. Skog lund. , , Mr. M. P. Ford recalled that men had been granted to other bodies which could have afforded to give work to men without assistance. He considered the men should be granted to the association but that the association should subsidise their wages by an extra day or two per W< The men would be employed on useful work, and if the association would give a subsidy, Mr. M. G. Trotter said, he would favour granting the request. Mr. E. Marfell said he would oppose the application because the association could well afford to pay for its lab°UMr. Trotter pointed out that the association had already spent a large amount in employing skilled labour for improvement to the show building. He moved that the Unemployment Board be recommended to grant the men as long aa the association subsidised their wages. The motion was lost by five votes to three. Mr. Marfell moved that the application be refused, but an amendment moved by the Mayor, Mr. P. Thomson, that the men be granted providing the association subsidised every man up to a full week with no stand-down week was carried.

-JiOISY MOTOR-CYCLES.

VENDORS MAY BE LIABLE. The fact that when a firm sells a motor-cycle with an inefficient silencer the firm may be responsible should the owner of the machine be charged with causing undue noise arose at the -Stratford Court yesterday when Edgar Fear was so charged. Fear had been charged at the previous sitting, when he said that the machine had not been altered since it was sold to him by a Stratford motor-cycle firm and that he understood it had a standard silencer. The case was adjourned then to permit the cycle to be examined. Assistant-Inspector H. Dixon stated that he had examined the machine and that it had not an efficient silencer. “It seems, if Fear’s story is correct, that the firm is liable for aiding and abetting the offence,” said Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M. Mr. Dixon said the salesman who sold the machine to Fear had left the firm two years ago and the firm had .no record of the condition of the machine when sold. “Well, that fact will have to be ascertained,” Mr. Tate said. “If the machine was sold in its present state the ■firm is liable, but if that is not so the firm will be able to absolve itself. I will adjourn the case for that information to be obtained.”

INTERFERENCE WITH RADIO. SPECIALIST MAKES A CLAIM. (Robert G. Law, radio specialist, Stratford, sued Edward H. Wylie, farmer, Aotuhia, at the Stratford Court yesterday, for £7 14s, allegedly owing on done for Wylie. The case was adjourned to admit further evidence. Law said he made two trips to Wylie’s place in order to overcome the interference with radio reception caused ■by a hydro-electric generating plant. He was satisfied that after the second trip he had cured the trouble. Wylie said he told Law of the trouble he was having with interference and Law became very interested. Wylie offered to take him out, but Law said he would go in his own car. Wylie considered he was doing Law a good turn in letting him try to fix the trouble as Law had said that it would be a “feather in his cap” if he could rectify the trouble. Law was not able to do so, and witness’ set was not registered now as he could not use it while the generating plant was running. John B. Wylie said the trouble was just as bafl after as before Law’s visits. Edward G. Calla’ghan, a neighbour of Wylie’s, stated that he picked up the generator just the same after Law’s trip as before.

LIQUOR SOLD AFTER HOURS. TWO MEN FOUND IN HOTEL. Charged with selling liquor after hours on July 23 John F. Ryan, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, 'Stratford, pleaded guilty at the Stratford Court yesterday and was fined £2, with costs 10s, Sergeant J. Power said two men, Archie George and Terry Quinn, were eeen going into the hotel at about 6.25 p.m. The police found them being served with drinks. Counsel referred to the good conduct of the hotel in the past. George and Quinn were each fined £l, with costs 10s.

ELTHAM THEATRE. DELIGHTFUL COMEDY. “The Man in Possession,” to be shown at Eltham to-night, is a fine comedy, delightfully English in dialogue and setting. Robert Montgomery, a comparatively new star, takes the leading part, and is ably supported by Charlotte Greenwood, that agile, elongated but really amusing comedienne of “So Long Letty” and “Stepping Out” fame. The story is good, a little risque, but not vulgar, in parts, and generally the whole production can be described as a riot of fun and action.