UNEMPLOYMENT

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

Board Replies To Critics c? t £ £ \ FEWER RELIEF WORKERS ■ '■ ■«■ ■ EXPLANATION OF POLICY (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a lengthy statement replying to points of criticism of the Unemployment* Board’s finances the board states that although the total number of workers who failed to find employment under normal conditions reached its peak for New Zealand during the past financial year, the number to-day who are in receipt of intermittent relief only under scheme No. 5 or are on sustenance is the lowest on record since April, 1931. In the -majority of cases the effect of the policy of a diversion io fulltime employment has been a heavier direct drain on the fund than would have been the case if sustenance were paid. The majority of men placed in full-time employment, however, have been engaged in reproductive work, and have; by their employment, provided additional employment for others, thus preventing the numbers of unemployed from reaching the high limits which appeared inevitable had any other cotirse been taken.