UNEMPLOYED AT PATEA

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 10

UNEMPLOYED AT PATEA

SOME WORK NOT ACCEPTED.

ALLOCATIONS NOT EXPENDED. Complaints that men allocated relief work did not attend at the job were made by Messrs. L. W. Austin (secretary) and L. F. Row at a meeting of the Patea Unemployment Committee yesterday. It was stated that if these men had given advice that they would not be taking the work those who were could have secured their full amount of work. Mr. Austin asked what was the use. of protesting against a reduced allocation from the Unemployment Board when not all of it was expended. Last week there had been a surplus. The position was that some men allocated work did not take it and did not advise anyone. If they did give any notification those actually ' Working could receive their full quota of work. Mr. Row, county clerk, said he had had the sain# trouble. His council provided transport for the men and had teams waiting for them. One day 19 men were supposed-to work, and. only nine arrived. If the men did not arrive on the right days the council could not afford to give them- facilities on other days. Mr. H. A. Campbell agreed to discuss this matter-with the unemployed. • Mr. Campbell brought before the meeting a- protest from the unemployed complaining- that ■a. .market gardener was securing, subsidised labour under the No. 5 scheme Air. Austin said that was apparently In order as it was an extension of the gardener’s. operations. Ho understood the man in question was breaking in new ground, which came within the scheme. Mr, A. T. Christensen, chairman, thought the work was seasonal. The committee could not give men to farmers to help with milking. Mr. C. R. Honeyfield said ,he dfd not think the land being ploughed by the relief worker was new ground. Mr. Austin explained that the committee was assisted by the gardener employing the man. He understood that the gardener would not ordinarily have employed the man without the subsidy. Mr. Campbell said there had been complaints by the unemployed about the posting of the freezing works offer of work in the manure department. Some considered this was approaching strikebreaking. ... T. J The chairman ©aid the committee had. received the offer from the company and had to advise the men of it. The committee had made no attempt to influence the men to accept the offer. A lot was going on behind the scenes that he and others did not like, said Mr. Austin. There was a spirit of unrest being fostered among a section of the unemployed. As far as the works was concerned, the only men the committee could not give work to were the strikers. Unemployed did not have to accept the offer. '

JUNIOR CRICKET IN SOUTH.

OPUNAKE ENTERING A TEAM.

Owing to Opunake entering a team, the South Taranaki junior fixtures have had to be re-drawn and now are:— November 12: Hawera High School v. Stratford B, at Hawera; Manaia v. Opunake, at Opunake; Stratford A a by©. • November 19: Opunake v. Stratford A, at Stratford; Manaia v. Stratford B, at Manaia; Hawera a bye. November 26: Hawera v. Opunake, at Hawera; Stratford A v. Manaia, at Stratford; Stratford B a bye. December 3: Hawera y. Stratford. A, at Stratford; Stratford B v. Opunake, at Stratford; Manaia a bye.

NORMANBY SCHOOL. MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE. The monthly meeting of the Normanby School Committee was held on Monday evening, there being present Mr. W. H. Bennett (chairman), Mrs. W. G. Gane, Messrs. C. Hardway, W. Burton, D. M. Cowie and the Rev. J. Watson (secretary). The headmaster (Mr. T. Taylor), reported that the roll number remained the same with a satisfactory average attendance. The school was visited by the attendance officer on October 25. The various school organmations showed satisfactory progress. The orchestra worked consistently and the Junior Red Cross had donated £1 to the Wairoa earthquake sufferers. Over eleven dozen eggs had been sent to the Hawera Unemployment Committee. Nurse Small had undertaken to train a team in the more advanced work of firstaid. The number of entries in the calfrearing and root-growing competitions remained the same as last year, but the entries for the garden plots showed a substantial increase, ten competitors having entered against two last year. The workmen engaged in the grounds improvement were doing splendid work in accordance with the scheme decided upon by the committee. A circular regarding the proposed school patrols at dangerous intersections was received, and the headmaster reported favouring such patrols, as he regarded the crossing opposite the school gates as dangerous. The chairman reported that four ponies and three calves belonging to the school children had been entered in the show, and it war left to him to arrange transport for these animals. A letter was received from the South Taranaki School Committees’ Association stating that it thoroughly approved of a yearly conference, and had appointed two delegates to go to Wellington. The association also asked that a levy of Is per member be imposed on school committees to pay the cost of delegates’ travelling expenses. After some discussion it was decided to agree to this request. A letter of congratulation is to be forwarded to Mr. J. Barclay, Okaiawa, on his success at the recent Education Board election. Arrangements were made f°-_ t_e school breaking-up ceremony, which is to take the form of some garden function, and it was left to a committee consisting of Mrs. Gane end Messrs. Howe-Giles and Burton to discuss the matter with the teachers and arrange a programme to be submitted to the next meeting. It was decided to give the forthcoming town and district jubilee every cooperation and support. A motion of sympathy with Mr. R. Kemp, secretary of the Eltham School Committee, in the lose of his mother was passed.