HIGHER LEVY
DUNEDIN MAYOR’S QUERY r
"BAREST SUSTENANCE” DUNEDIN, Last Night. Mr. R. S. Black, Mayor of Dunedin, considers that no material advantage will be secured by relief workers under the revised schemes, and that if the Unemployment Board, with a wage tax of 3d in the £, plus the levy, could find work for unemployed for three weeks out of four, it should now be able to find work for substantially the same number with a 300 per cent, increase in the tax, notwithstanding the fact that there was no contribution from the Consolidated Fund, and the additional fact that the relief depots were officially non-existent. The relief depots were not merely officially closed, but would soon actually be at an end. It must be a great disappointment to taxpayers, said the Mayor, to find that even with the heavy burden of taxation they are now asked to carry, the Government cannot see its way clear to provide the barest sustenance for the unemployed. It was up to the Government to review its proposals immediately, and see whether something cannot be done to improve the position this winter.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 118, 13 May 1932, Page 8
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