OFFERED TO RESIGN.
Mr Oliver Stanley Takes Blame. UNEMPLOYMENT FIASCO. United Press ‘Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 15, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 14. The Sydney Sun-Herald News Service says that as a sequel to the dole muddle Mr Oliver Stanley offered to tender his resignation, which Mr MacDonald refused to accept, but Mr Stanley may again offer to resign when the House of Commons passes the unemployment measures. Mr Stanley admits that he, and not the Unemployment Assistance Board, was responsible for the fiasco. UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF. LONDON, February 14. The political correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” foreshadows a reversal of the Government’s policy which placed unemployment relief under the Unemployment Assistance Board and says that new legislation will probably result in putting the administration of State assistance under Ministerial control.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 1
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