RELIEF WAGES.
Chamber Suggests Reverting to Old Rates. " ECONOMICAL SCHEME.” Per Press Association. WAIPUKURAU, October S. The Waipukurau Chamber of Commerce, which has a large membership, unanimously passed the following resolution at the annual meeting last night:— “ The Chamber urges the Government and the Unemployment Board to give immediate consideration to the question of reverting to the old basis of 12s 6d and 9s a day respectively for country unemployed workers. Three relief weeks monthly is more satisfactory and economical than the new scheme, ostensibly providing the same aggregate total pay, but spread over a longer period at lower rates, the time saved under the old scheme being valuable to the worker for cultivating a vegetable plot or for securing other employment. “ The Chamber further holds that so long as the new scheme operates the same a gg re g at e pay as is given to city unemployed should be available to country workers.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 579, 8 October 1932, Page 9
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