UNEMPLOYMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

WORK FOR 5000,

RELIEF PLANS.

The Government has completed plans for the almost immediate absorption of 3000 of New Zealand’s unemployed. Following a, meeting yesterday y of the Cabinet Committee dealing with the Government’s employment proposals, it was officially announced that during the past week work was offered to 2365 men, 640 of whom refused to accept it. The remainder, including 215 tradesmen, had been engaged, and the men were at work in various parts of the country. At the meeting of the committee, > plans were' completed for taking on shortlv, as circumstances warranted, an additional 2400. Up to 200 tradesmen were provided for in that quota. There had been little change in the registrations since the figures were Mm published. The figures on October 9{h were 61SS, while last evening they stood at 6206.

-F.Tjvr.T-F.-F WORKERS’ PAY. By way of an urgent question, Mr R. A. Wright (Reform, Wellington Suburbs) asked the Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom) if he would make arrangements for the men ■emploved on "relief works at Haywaids to be paid weekly instead of monthly. The Minister replied that, while he was unable to agree to the proposal, lie would, in- view- "of -the peculiar circumstances of the men, arrange for their wages to be paid at the end of this week, and to give another payment/at the end of the month. REGISTRATION FIGURES. An explanation for the stoppage of publication of unemployment registration figures was sought in the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr 11. M. Canrnhs’fl (Reform, Hawke’s Bay). Thflfclinister of Labour (Hdn. W. A. VeitcK) stated that the publication of the figures had been authorised for a few days, but it had been found that the records published did not synchronise with those of other Departments, which had been brought into the scheme for unemployment relief. Until such time as the’ figures had been thoroughly synchronised as to make them reliable, the details would not be published.

POLICY CRITICISED.

A_. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) ‘CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. According to some authorities, the policy of the Government, as announced by Sir Joseph Ward, in respect of unemployment, that within five weeks of the date of the announcement work would be found for all able men, has had an undesirable effe'et in connection with the settling of the market in respect of rural workers. They say that the announcement has upset the labour rnarket to such an extent that the man who legitimately wants rural workers finds that there are comparatively few offeriiM / ■ ~ , A representative of the ‘ Press, who made some enquiries to-day, heard that there were vacancies for 40 or 50 farm workers, but no success has crowned the efforts made to find, men to fill them.