NUMBER 5 SCHEME

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 121, 17 May 1932, Page 2

NUMBER 5 SCHEME

<£> ‘‘BREEDING UNDESIRABLES” ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTION That the funds available from the Unemployment Board be paid direct to public bodies to be expended at the Unemployment Board rate of 12s 6d per day for men who can be employ-ed-and that for .those who are unable to work a fund be set aside from which hospital boards can provide relief, was the tenor of a remit which the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board decided yesterday afternoon to forward to the Hospital Boards’ Association for consideration at its annual conference of delegates at Wellington on June 9.

“The unemployed have caused a considerable drain on our finances, and from time to time we have protested against the unemployed being carried by the hospital boards,’ ’ said Mr Morse, in moving the remit. He suggested further, after Me had stated ‘the terms of the remit, that those who were able to work and would not work should be left to starve. (

“I think I said at a previous meeting that I was ‘fed up’ with the No.

5 scheme,” said tho chairman, “and that is my reason for moving this remit. I contend that we are breeding a lot of undesirables through the No. 5 scheme and it should not be allowed to continue. ”

Mr C. Lassen: It will be a big question if we throw it on the local bodies to find the work.

Mr Morse: We have had no trouble in finding work.

As far as the Hawke’s Bay CountyCouncil was concerned, said Mr Lassen, the position was arising that it was getting hard to find work. If Mr Morse’s remit was put into effect the unemployed would be crowding round the office and there would have to be a separate office to deal with them. He did not think that the local bodies would accept it.

Mr H. V. Hoadley understood that the remit was intended to make money available to public bodies which would lie able to create work that would be of a productive nature which hospitable boards were not in a position to know how to use. The Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board had only used a small amount of unemployed labour which had absorbed only £l5OO. The board and other employers of unemployed labour would be. in a better position if they were in a position to say: “You

are not holding your end up, so get out.”

Mr Lassen: If the remit is passed and local bodies do not take it up, what would be the position? Mr Morse: We would just have to continue as at present. What I am aiming at is that we get more weight for our money. The remit which was seconded by Mr Hoadley, was then carried by tho board. 1