UNEMPLOYMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 March 1930, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

INSURANCE SCHEME. LABOUR APPROVAL. Press Association-Electric XeleKraph-Copv'gt (Received Saturday, 9.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The State Parliamentary Labour Party has approved of the Cabinet proposals for unemployment insurance. It is now proposed, pending the operation of such legislation, to raise £350,000 by special income and property tax for the relief of unemployed at a rate of Id in the pound on incomes derived from personal exertion, and Id in tho pound from property. Income tax will bo levied on single men earning £2OO a year or over, and on married men earning £3OO or over.

A CHRISTCHURCH SUGGESTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. At a meeting of the Citizens’ Unemployed Committee at Christchurch to-day it was resolved, on the motion of Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., that as there are largo sums of money at the disposal of the Main Highways Board they should be utilised for the purpose of improving and extending main highways, thereby giving employment to hundreds of men and using the funds at the board’s disposal for the purpose for which they were collected. It was stated that the Highways Board had £500',000 unexpended South Island funds in hand. AN UNPOPULAR SCHEME. ASHBURTON, Friday. The Ashburton County Council passed a resolution to-day protesting against the constitution and finding of the committee on unemployment and the imposition of any further burden, on the land. It held that the commission was not representative of the farmers and the recommendations, as such, could not be borne by the farming community. Many farmers who pay special land tax could employ two men. with the money they would have to pay towards the scheme. The council was of opinion that the scheme will lend to increased unemployment.