SCHEME SUSPENDED

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 7

SCHEME SUSPENDED

NO. 5 RELIEF WORK AT FEILDING.

YOUNG MEN AND PRIVATE WORK.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Employment, states that following upon a review by the Unemployment Board of the relief position in the Feilding district it has been found that although private employment is offering for single men in that area men are not accepting it, preferring to remain on relief. It has accordingly been decided to suspend the No. 5 scheme of relief to single men remaining on the Feilding register after the end of December except m cases in which the local certifying officer is satisfied that private employment has been unprocurable. In these exceptional casds it will probably be arranged to give men work on farm development in the King Country. The Minister said the unemployment fund was provided by the taxpayers for the relief of distress due to unemployment, and the board could not permit it to be used to support able-bodied men for whom it was believed private employment was available. The information of the board was that the single unemployed men at Feilding would experience no difficulty in procuring work, and due provision would be made either by way of developmental work or sustenance for those who could not obtain such work or who were unfit for such work