Wanganui Unemployment.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 6

Wanganui Unemployment.

The total of unemployed men In Wanganui has now reached 1176, which is an increase of 41 men compared with last week. During last week 90 new application.-, were received and 72 men were struck off the lists. Four were sent to the Public Works camp and 22 to the forestry Vamp. Under the No. 4A scheme, 37 were employed. Quota from Canteen Fund. It was stateci at a meeting of the Wanganui Unemployment Committee yesterday by Air H. Powell that it was hoped by the Wanganui Veterans’ Association that next month a quota from the canteen fund would be available to unemployed returned soldiers in Wanganui. He stated that the association was now an incorporated body and that affiliation with the "Returned Soldiers’ Association was going through immediately. School at Tawata. There is a prospect of a school being established in the Tawata Block. Wanganui River. In this locality the river is the boundary between the Wanganui and Taranaki Education Boards. When an application for a school was made a conference between the two boards was held and it was found that the best location for the building was in the Wanganui area. The Taranaki board is prepared to allow the use of a building which will have to be conveyed across the river and erected. At its meeting yesterday the Wanganui board decided to ask the Education Board to make a grant for this work. Salary Anomalies. An anomaly in payments to teachers was referred to at the Wanganui Education Board yesterday. It is brought about through the application of ‘vuts’ to house allowances. It was pointed out by the secretary (Mr W. H. Swanger) that, a residence might mean an amount of £4O to a single teacher. If the same building was occupied by a married teacher it would bo rated at £5O. House allowance was £lO more in the case of a married man. When ‘cuts’ wore applied a married teacher paid on £5O and the single man on £4O. vet the same building was involved. Mr AT. IT. Oram said that such a provision was ridiculous. It was decided to support a protest to the department. A Deputy Chairman. Notice of motion has been given by Mr .1. K. Hornblow to the effect that the Wanganui Educi'ion Board seek ’ legal advice as to whether it was right * in appointing a deputy chairman. Prior to the confirmation of the minutes at ’ yesterday’s meeting, he expressed the > opinion that the board had no power ' to make such an appointment. Ho in--1 tended to vote against the minutes if a reference to a deputy chairman was included. The chairman (Air E. F. Hemingway) said that the vote asked ■ for was not, on the legality, or otherI wise, of the appointment, of a deputy f chairman, but whether the minutes 1 were a correct transcript of what w- - curred at the previous meeting. The - minutes were confirmed and, thereupon, . Mr Hornblow gave notice as stated.