UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.
WELLINGTON SITUATION. A DESPERATE POSITION. GRANT FROM PREMIER WANTED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 8. The seriousness of the local unemployment situation pending the finalisation of legislation was emphasised at a meeting of the local Unemployment Board and local Members of Parliament. Advice was received from the Unemployment Board restricting the amount available for unemployment relief ecpiivalent to the addition of 840 men to the number of men it was already impossible to employ owing to lack of funds. Both Reform and Labour Members present agreed the Bill was likely to prove contentious and it was impossible therefore that it would pass in less than a week. It was decided that a deputation from the Unemployment Committee wait upon the Prime Minister with the object of obtaining immediately a grant which will absorb all lh< unemployed in the district and p ' plenty of time to discuss the Bill later.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18235, 8 July 1931, Page 2
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151UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18235, 8 July 1931, Page 2
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