WORK TO BE FOUND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 198, 24 August 1935, Page 10

WORK TO BE FOUND

STANDARD RATES OF PAY THOUSANDS TO LEAVE SUSTENANCE STATEMENT BY MINISTER ( Per Press Association. ) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 23. The Unemployment Board hopes, in the coining spring, to take thousands of men off sustenance and to place them on major works at standard rates of pay, the Minister for Employment, the Hon. S. G. Sm th, stated during an iufoimal conference this afternoon with the Christchurch Unemployment Committee. The board, he said, would endeavour to find such works within reasonable distances of the main centres, because it did not wish to inflict unnecessary hardship on the men by taking them away from their homes, or making them travel long distances whore that was avoidable. The Minister's statement was described by the chairman of the committee, Mr E. H. Andrews, as extremely heartening, although Mr Smith emphasised that the Unemployment Board could not undertake to find the whole of the funds for such works. The Minister spoke of the need for cooperation by local bodies and individuals of the means and influence, and expressed the opinion that such cooperation would quickly break the back of the Dominion’s most pressing prbolem.