UNEMPLOYMENTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENTS.

PROVISION OF RELIEF. A FURTHER PROPOSAL. SUBSIDY TO LOCAL COMMITTEES (THE PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 28. A lurthcr measure of relief to meet distress over the Christmas period is being considered by the Unemployment oarc w iidi lias before it a proposal o pj o\ idc a. limited amount oi: money i'o subsidise work organised by local committees at the rate of ;£ for & on wages only. By this means, and with the use of the di 25,000 in all to be made available l'or local authorities throughout, the Dominion, the Board hopes that every man out of work, who is willing and able to take employment, will have a job during December and J aiuiarv. Co-operation Invited. -In furtherance of its desire to extend help over Christinas, the Board desires to invite the co-operation of nit local Unemployment Committees, and it urges the setting up of committees whore they do not already exist. The Board suggests that these committees should be representative of local governing authorities, hospital boards, red cross societies, religious bodies, social organisations assisting in the relief of unemployment, and 1 lie distress attending it, labour organisations, employers' associations, manufacturers' associations, returned solidiers' associations, members of the Legislature and the Labour Department. It also recommends that they should have the necessary power to add to their number. According to the Board these committees can lie*) in the following ways:— 1. By collecting and collating information affecting the problem of unemployment in their areas. 2. By organising individual effort on the part of citizens by which they will find temporary work, even if only for a few days at a time on farms, in gardens, or in other similar avenues. 3. By co-operating with and assisting the existing social organisations which arc administering relief. It is pointed out by the Board that the proposal to afford a further measure of temporary relief has been made to afford it time to explore fully the possibilities of stimulating productive employment, as well as organising the machinery which will be needed if it is found necessary to pay sustenance under the Act whery employment cannot be found. It is emphasised that the operations of the suggested local committees must be organised without any cost to the Board. All work must be carried out voluntarily, and the Board will not agree to being involved in any cost so far aA tho committees are concerned. STREET APPEAL. SALVATION ARMY EFFORT. A special street appeal conducted by officers of tho Salvation Army yesterdav realised tho sum of £lOl 4-s -sd. This money will bo used to meet the expenses incurred in providing for tho 103 unemployed men who aro housed and fed free" of charge at tho Army's Homo for Men at Addington. Tho appeal took the form of the sale of badges bearing the likeness of Osear Garden, the- New Zealand aviator, who gavo tho Army permission to sell the badges. . Two thousand of these were procured, and all but three hundred of them sold. StalF-Captain Dry, manager of the home, stated that tho money collected would provide for 4(XX) meals, a lortnight's food for tho men. There were 410 meal.s a day provided at the home, which was at present housing a record number of men. About twenty of these wero unemployable?, who had boon in I mates of the home for some time.