RELIEF PROPOSAL.
Ten Provincial Boards for
New Zealand.
A circular issued by Dr II T. T Thacker, as convener, and Mr George S. Cray, who will address the meeting, states:—“You are invited to a conference of business workers and delegate members of local bodies to discuss a scheme of decentralising the present Unemployment Board into ten Provincial boards, and to raise three £4,000,000 loans if necessary by 3 per cent loan bonds, one for each succeeding year, to bury the disease (‘ unemployment ’) with its attendant ‘ relief work,’ each necessary loan to be added on the present four and a half million wage tax levy, and 'this eight and a half million to be disoensed on approved constructive works by all local bodies in the Dominion on a population basis, and under the control of each provincial board and an accredited financial expert, who has been in close touch with all phases of unemployment and R.S.A. works, who will expound details that are to be criticised and put into shape by this meeting.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20365, 24 July 1934, Page 7
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