UNEMPLOYED RELIEF.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 11

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF.

SINGLE MEN IN CAMP. FORTNIGHT'S HOLIDAY GIVEN. Telegraph. —Press Association.) ( WELLINGTON, Wednesday, Single men will be able to have thetr share of the Unemployment Board’s Christmas box according 0 advice received by Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., from the administrative committee of the board. , Single men in camps will'be given a fortnight's holiday at Christmas on camp pay. In addiUon, they will receive half fares' to and from thJr h °Slngle men for whom no work has been found, but not those who have been offered and have refused woik, will receive the same consideration. Those who remain In camp will receive camp pay without work, as well as food supplies. Treated In Ordinary Way. A plea that relief workers who would normally be stood down during the Christmas holidays should be allowed lo participate in the scheme whereby men will be paid during that period, but will not he called on to work, was made by Mr A. M. Samuel (Government —Thames) in an urgent question In the House to-day to the aclingMinister of Employment; the Hon. A. Hamilton. Mr Samuel urged that all workers should be treated alike. Replying, Mr Hamilton said that workers would receive such amount as they were entitled to In the ordinary way. The usual allocation would he made, and men who would normally be required to work would he paid, but would not be asked lo work.