UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 441, 5 December 1930, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

MEN FROM OVERSEAS. RESTRICTION I'KG ED. |Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON. Dec. 3. The necessity for Government action io restrict any influx into New Zealand of unemployed which might follow through the substantial relief for workless which is to be undertaken in New Zealand was urged by Mr \V. h. S. Knight, chairman of the Otago Hospital Board, at a meeting of the Hospital Boards’ Association to-day. Mr Knight said that it would be desirable to be prepared to cope with any move from unemployed who might be enticed from overseas. He pointed out that the residential clause of the Unemployment Act would have the effect of throwing the liability on to Hospital Boards of indigent new arrival*. The relief which the Hospital Boards hoped to obtain under the Unemployment Act might thereby be cancelled to some extent. The very heavy burden placed on Hospital Boards on account of outdoor relief caused through unemployment was further discussed. It was considered that, pending a framing of the Unemployment Board’s policy, and in view of the fact that a remit was going before the Hospital Board’s Conference in March further consideration of the question might be deferred.