MEETING UNEMPLOYMENT
WORK TO TIDE OYER WINTER MONTHS. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. £ty TelegraDb.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, this day. • The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Pu'blic Works, stated yesterday that the need for organising to counter unemployment during the coming winter months had not been lost sight of, and jthait men have, 'for some time been drafted to. public works. The Government, lie explain.*, Irad set aside £250,000 for the purpose of providing employment. The money is to be spent on reproductive work, and the payment is arranged on a basis on which the average man should earn 10 s per day, but some gangs have earned 15s 6d per man.. Others going very easy have earned about 5s a day. According to the latest return 5,010 men were employed on ptfblio workte, and of theset 1000 were relief workers. The local bodies in most of the large towns in the Dominion had also been raising money for municipal workl, and a number of counties had done the same.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6491, 6 April 1922, Page 3
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