SETTLING UNEMPLIYED

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3212, 4 August 1932, Page 4

SETTLING UNEMPLIYED

GIFTS OF SAVINGS BANK. HEELPING MEN AND BOYS. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Two handsome donations toward schemes for settling unemployed men and boys on the land have been made by the trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank. Subject to the necessary legislative authority, the trustees decided at the monthly meeting yesterday to donate £IO,OOO toward a scheme, promoted by Mr D. V. Bryant, of Hamilton, and other practical farmers, for the settlement of unemployed men on the land. The donation is subject to certain conditions, one of which is that, before the bank makes any funds available, Mr Bryant's organisation sfooiild be properly constituted and should have raised from the public at*-least £IO,OOO by way of gift. Deeming the provision of suitable employment for unemployed boys to be of vital importance the trustees also propose, subject to the necessary legislative sanction being given, to make available £2OOO toward the acquisition of a suitable block of land and to expend on the scheme during, say, five years, a sum not exceeding £20.000 for the development of the land and the training and settling there of a number of boys of suitable type. . Arrangements have been made for the scheme to be supervised by a competent organisation, which will act in conjunction with a management committee appointed by the bank.