HALF CUTS RESTORED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 155, 3 July 1934, Page 7

HALF CUTS RESTORED

BRITAIN’S CIVIL SERVANTS UNEMPLOYED BENEFITS ENCOURAGING SITUATION. [British Official Wireless.] RUGBY, June 30. To-morrow will bring financial improvement to more than 4,000,000 people in Britain, for, in accordance with the decision announce! by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in hi.-. Budget speech, July 1 will mark the end of nearly three years of enconomy. The pay-outs for unemployment benefit will be fully restored to the 1931 level, the concession costing tho Excaequer over £4,000,000 a year. At the same time all servants of tho .State will receive back hV.f e c the pay cuts borne Since the 1931 crisis. This will cost the Slate anothci (.4,000.000 in a full year. Those effected by this last measure in dude Min i.-ters of the Crown, members of Parliament, Judges, civil servuits, teach ers, police, insurance doctors ami demists, as wed is memdrs of the Na» y, A:..iy. and A-r F >rce. When tl.e Chancellor announced the concession he said: “We can venture to remove a substantial portion of the load we have been carrying without fearing that presently we shall have to put it back,” and he expressed his belief that this relief to such a large portion of the community would itself hasten the process of recovery. Another cheerful piece of news is that, the official returns of unemployment during June, although not yet available in detail, arc expected to show that approximately another 25,000 people have found work during the month.