UNEMPLOYED RELIEF
NO. 5 SCHEME A BURDEN ON LOCAL BODIES. The overhead costs of carrying on relief works are burdening the local bodies so severely that it is problematical whether they will be able to carry on the system much longer. Although the Government provides the funds required for wages, under the Department’s No. 5 scheme, it leaves to the local authority the whole expense of supervision, the equipment of the workers with tools, and the cartage of material, and other incidentals. In the case of one suburban borough, which -is employing 150 men upon work that comes under > the scheme, the cost under these various headings amounts to about £l5O a week. The suggestion is made that it would be reasonable for the department to provide at least for the wages of the gangers, and make some allowance to the local body for the necessary tools, seeing that the Council is obliged to lay in a stock of these beyond, its ordinary requirements.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3262, 19 February 1931, Page 5
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