IDLE MINERS
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARRANGED
By Telegraph—Press Association GREYMOUTH, February 8. There is still no Indication of a resumption of work at the two Idle Grey Valley mines. Dobson and Wallsend. Arrangements have been made for the payment of the social security unemployment benefit to the idle miners. On Wednesday afternoon six officers from the Social Security Department visited Wallsend, and by arrangement with the miners’ unions, the men were registered for the benefit under the Social Security Act. and also under the State Placement Service. Under the unemployment benefit, single men will receive £1 a week, and married men an additional 15/- for their wives and 5/- for each child. It is understood that the first payments of the benefit will be made at the end of this week or at the beginning of next. As the men are also being registered as unemployed under the State Placement Service, they will be available for public works jobs, as these become vacant. Endeavours are being made to place available single men at Bruce Bay, and married men on the Buller Gorge railway construction works.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 4
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184IDLE MINERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 4
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