HOURS RATIONED

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 29, 26 January 1933, Page 5

HOURS RATIONED

RATE OF PAYMENT MAINTAINED NEW RELIEF CONDITIONS During this week relief workers will work less time and receive less pay, according to the new instructions issued by the Unemployment Board, states the “Christchurch Star." It was at first thought that (he men would receive a direct cut of one shilling per day, but it was explained that they will receive the same rate of pay as previously, but will work only seven hours a day instead of eight. This means that instead of receiving 1 Os a day, married men will now receive 9s. The officer in charge of the Christchurch Labour Department, Air. R. T. Bailey, stated that the instruction was not a new one altogether but merely a repetition of an instruction issued on November 12 last, when the allocations to local bodies were reduced by the Unemployment Board by 10 per cent. The original instruction that the hours of work should be rationed had been disobeyed. Instead of reducing the hours of work, local bodies had) put a number of men off and paid the remainder the usual relief rates of pay. The board was opposed to this and insisted that all men should be kept in employment. Under the rationing scheme fourday relief workers will lose three and a-half hours, three-and-a-half-day men three hours, three-day men two and a-half hours, two-and-a-half-day men two hours, and two-day men one and a-half hours.