GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES.
FOR RELIEF WORKS,
SOME NEW CONDITIONS,
(By Telegraph;—Press Association). WELLINGTON. June 11. The Prime Minister stated on Saturday that the Government had de- ■ cided to vary the conditions applying to payment of subsidies to local bodies :in respect of approved works undertaken for the relief of unemployment. The conditions obtaining last year will be varied to provide that a subt. sidy on wages up to the rate of 12/- . and 9/- per day shall be paid on all labour, irrespective of what proportion labour forms of the total cost of the undertaking, and irrespective of - tht GO per cent, minimum which formerly applied. It has also been decided that cartage and transport specially used on such works shall be subsidised for .drivers up to 12/- and 9/- a day, and £ for £ on the actual running cost of ; the vehicles.
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Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17386, 11 June 1928, Page 5
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