FINDING MORE MONEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 8

FINDING MORE MONEY

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF STATEMENT BY MR FORBES QUESTION FOR PARLIAMENT [British Official Wireless.] WELLINGTON, Juno 15. One of the first questions to be sub mitted to Parliament upon the opening of the session on June 25, will be that of unemployment, according to a statement made by the Prime Minister, Hon. G. W. Forbes, in an interview to-day. An impossible position has been reached by the Unemployment Board, whose weekly expenditure of £40,000 is double the revenue received. The suspension of the No. 5 Scheme from next Saturday will mean that thousands of men will be left without relief work. The Prime Minister said to-day that more money would certainly have to be found for unemployment relief, and Parliament would be asked to consider the question during the coming session. He said he was not in a position to say at present whether the levy would be increased or not, or whether some other way of finding the money required would be attempted. Suggestions have been made that a temporary scheme to assist the unemployed until Parliament can deal with the situation will be drawn up. How ever, it is understood that the securing of finance to do this will be particularly difficult.