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THOUSANDS OFF SUSTENANCE. UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD PLAN. (By Telegrrapti.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The Unemployment Board hopes in tire coming spring to take thousands of men off sustenance and to place them on major works at standard rates of pay, the Minister of Employment, tho Hon. S. G. Smith, stated during an informal conference this afternoon with the Christchurch Unemployment Committee. The board, the Minister said, would endeavour to find such works within reasonable distances from the main centres, because it did not wish to inflict unnecessary hardship on the men by taking them away from their homes or making them travel long distances where that was avoidable. The Minister’s statement was described by the chairman of the committee, Mr E. IT. Andrews, as extremely heartening. Mr Smith emphasised that the Unemployment Board could not undertake to find the whole of the funds for ■such works.
The Minister spoke of the need for co-operation by local bodies and individuals of means and influence, and expressed the opinion that such cooperation would quickly break the back of the Dominion’s most pressing problem.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 7
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