BRITAIN’S IDLE HOSTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 7 April 1927, Page 9

BRITAIN’S IDLE HOSTS.

Problem of Unemployment. LABOUR’S BIG SCHEME. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, April 6. It w a coincidence that simultaneously with Cabinet’s ’trade Lnion Bill several members of the House of Commons brought down a Private Bill for the prevention, of unemployment. It provides for iba creation of a National Employment Development Board composed wholly of Ministers of whom the Minister of Labour would bo chairman: Parliament to vote £10,009,000 annually for the Board’s purposes, expendable in any part of the Empire on works or services, or in form of grants to Dominion authorities usable for land, transport, mining and electrical undertakings; also in Britain where local authorities will execute approved works. In default of which the Board of Government Departments should carry • out the work partly at the expense of the local authorities. The Bid concludes with a naive provision empowering the Board to invest unexpended balances.