CUTS RESTORED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20374, 3 July 1934, Page 1

CUTS RESTORED.

British Civil Servants All

Benefit

HASTENING RECOVERY

British Official Wireless. RUGBY. June 30.

To-morrow will bring financial improvement to more than 4,000,000 people in Britain, for, in accordance with the decision announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech, July 1 will mark the end of nearly three years of the economv pay cuts. The unemployment benefit will'be fully restored to the 1931 level, a concession costing the Exchequer nearly £4.000.000 a year. At the same time all servants of the State will receive back half of the pay cuts borne since the 1931 crisis. This will cost the State another £4,000,000.

Those affected by this last measure include Ministers of the Crown, members of Parliament, Judges, civil servants, teachers, police, insurance doctors and chemists, as well as members of the Navy, Army and Air Force. When the Chancellor announced the concession he said: “We can venture to remove a substantial portion of the load we have been carrying without fearing that presently we shall have to put it back,” and he expressed the belief that this relief to such a large portion of the community would itself hasten the process of recovery. Another cheerful piece of news is that the official returns of unemployment during June, although not yet available in detail, are expected to show that approximately another 28,000 people have found work during the month.