PREMIUM ON WASTERS’

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 6

PREMIUM ON WASTERS’

- THE UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES FARMERS’ UNION DISCUSSION That the unemployment schemes for employing men on the land were a farce, was the opinion of Mr R. Campion, who had something to say on the matter at the meeting of the Wanganui executive of the Farmers’ Union yesterday. He considered that a large amount of time was wasted before the men could be employed, owing to the fact that it had to be proved that the mei Lad been unemployed for a fortnight. During that time there was always a good type of man who could get a day’s work here or there, and by so doing he was at once barred from relief under the unemployment schemes. The farmers therefore had to employ the men themselves without the assistance of the Unemployment Board, which meant that the men were now longer unemployed and that the farmer was not gaining any benefit froiu the schemes. He considered that the sc he me ? were 4< a premium on wasters.” Mr Howie: “Too right they arc. Now you’ve gut it.’’ Air Campion continued by saying that there was a lot of red tape attached to employing the men. and also when they were employed. Inspectors were sent out to see that they were working. The suggestion was made that a clerk should be sent out to wherever there were 10 to 15 men. He would be able to see whether their papers were in order and to attend to the business. The president, Air T. Currie, asked Air Campion to put his complaints in writing so that he, Mr Currie, could lay them before the Farmers’ Union in Wellington.