WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 116, 11 May 1932, Page 5

WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Better Provision Urged

FROM - UNEMPLOYMENT - TAX

DEPUTATION TO MR. COATES

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day

Representatives of churches and social organisations waited on the Kt. Hon. J. G. Coates to-day to urge that better provision should be made for unemployed women and that women should be provided for out of unemployment taxation.

Air. Coates said that a committee was investigating the position throughout New Zealand and was consulting and advising loca-1 organisations with a view to making recommendations to the Unemployment Board.

One of the deputation’s requests was that married women should be invited by the Government to draw off the labour market where they had husbands to support them, and that no woman should be forced on to the rocks of despair or destitution as long as there remained any income from which taxation could be raised for her protection. Mr. Coates said that, as far as women and children were concerned they were being provided for as a result of the relief that was granted to married men. The new scale of relief was designed specially to help married men, and, whereas previously, families with two children were treated on equality with a man and his wife only, under the revised scale, special account was taken of children. It must still be admitted that, where there were larger families and special circumstances, extra provision would have to be made. Consideration would .therefore, be given to individual cases and circumstances, as ascertained by enquiry, would be taken into reasonable, account.