RELIEF WORKS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 5

RELIEF WORKS

MANY VACANCIES IN CAMPS RESULT OF AUCKLAND INQUIRIES By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, May 17. There are 753 vacancies for men hi all classes of country camps in Auckland province. The total number of men on sustenance in Auckland is 810. These facts were ascertained in inquiries following an announcement that from next Monday sustenance rates instead of half rates will be paid to relief workers for whom no suitable and approved work can be found in town or country. Payment of full sustenance to men eligible for it will continue throughout the winter. Men for whom no work can be found will thus be placed on the same footing as those who elected to accept sustenance. A labour Department official said that there were almost sufficient men on sustenance in Auckland to fill country camp vacancies. The department and local bodies had gone to considerable expense in equipping the camps, and they had been more than surprised at the lack of response by the men. Not all the men on sustenance were fit for camp, but if fit men in the city would go to the country their departure would leave available for many men now on sustenance suitable and approved work which they could perform in the city.