GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY TO BE PAID ON BASIS OF 95 AND 12S A DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18182, 15 June 1927, Page 15

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY TO BE PAID ON BASIS OF 95 AND 12S A DAY.

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 14. The Hon G. J. Anderson, Minister of Labour, to-day outlined further directions in which the Government is prepared to move to relieve unemployment. The Government have decided to subsidise (£1 for £1) moneys borrowed for the sole purpose of relief of unemployment, provided the works have not been included in any schedule of works lor which a loan had been raised by the local authority. The same subsidy will also be paid for voluntary subscriptions by private persons, provided these have been handed over to local bodies to be expended upon approved relief works. Where counties, road boards or other local bodies in rural districts raise loans for the relief of unemployment the Government will consider each application on its merits, and where approved grant £1 for £1 upon the total cost of the work. Parliament will be asked to extend the operation of the Act passed last year to enable local bodies to raise loans for the relief of unemployment. No work will be subsidised in a city, borough or town district unless 00 per cent of the estimated cost is to be paid for labour on the actual work done, and the Government ’will subsidise such approved works up to 50 per cent of the cost of labour, based on 12s a day for married men and 9s a day for single.