MONEY FOR RELIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 638, 16 December 1932, Page 5

MONEY FOR RELIEF.

Statement by Minister of Employment. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. (Special to ttie " Star.”) WELLINGTON, December 16. According to a statement by the acting-Minister of Employment, the acting-Minister of Employment, the lion Adam Hamilton, the average weekly income is about £73.000. and the allocation of funds to various districts for relief purposes is £83,000. The statement was made in reply to Mr Savage, member for Auckland West, who had conveyed to the Minister resolutions on the unemployment situation passed at a public meeting at Auckland. “For a number of weeks during the late winter and spring,” adds Mr Hamilton, “ the board’s weekly allocation was £91,000. Although the board’s funds are at present quite healthy, it is easy to see what the result would be if the weekly allocations continue above the average, weekly income.” In detailed figures relating to the Auckland position the Minister is able to show that the weekly allocation per head of Auckland registered unemployed in December, 1931, amounted to 17s, but for the corresponding period this year the amount is 2Gs Bd. The District Engineer of Public Works at Auckland has reported to the head office difficulties in securing 200 married men for the Department’s relief works, mainly road metalling, paid on the basis of 10s a day, six days’ work weekly.