UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20105, 8 December 1930, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD.

♦ £19,356 ALLOCATED. GRANTS TO CANTERBURY BODIES. LOCAL COMMITTEES' INUNCTIONS [THE PBESS Special Service. } WELLINGTON, December 0 As a result of the Unemployment Board's offer to local authorities of subsidies up to a. total of ; £ 20,000 on the basis of £2 for £l, a 8 :i special expedience measure for the relief of unemployment over the Christmas season, a considerable number of applications were received and considered up to yesterday, when the Hoard held its "last meeting for this week. Allocations amounting to £ 10,."SO have been made by the Hoard and approve, 1 by the Minister for Eimmcc. The'lioard is only recommending subsidies on works carried out with money derived from other than Government: sources. The list of allocations is as follows: Christ church City Council . i^ !f) Auckland City Council ' 7 '..,

Napier Borough Council New Plymouth Borough Council 500 Wairau Bivcr Hoard 1()0 I nvcrcargill City Council -j^-j Taranaki County Coun.-i J ;o q Stewart Island Countv Council "no Auckland City Council .. liluff Borough Council jo () Waimakariri Ifiver Trust 200 Waimairi County Council 450 lleat hcote County Council . * 7^o Greymouth Borough Council .3(57 Wellington City Council . . 4000 Mosgiel Borough Council . * 043 Mount Albert Borough Council 1250 lleat hcote County Council and LytteJton Borough Council combined . . _ Pataugata County Council .. ;joo llokianga County Council .. jjgjj Ingicwood Horough Council . . 285 Brighton Domain Board 100 Clutha County Council goo Grey County Council 150 Gore Horough Council .. ( ;5 Dunedin City Council .. 573 St. Ilelier's Sclioo' Committee .. 205 Blenheim Borough Council .. 200 Johnsonville Town Hoard .. "<11; laranaki County Council .. lot) Opotiki Borough Council .. 100 Otago Harbour Hoard .. 1500 i'aparua County Council . . ](;o Peninsula County Council .. 200 Stratford County Council .. r,G

\\ annate Borough Council .. ji)o Stratford Horough Council .. 205 To A wainutu borough Council .. 250 Uendeison Town Hoard .. 37;;

Christchurcr. City Council .. -100 Kaitangata School Committee .. -JO Manga wfiau School ('ommiUce .. M 5 I ishury School Committee .. 25 in ton Borough Council .. 200 Waihi Borough Council .. 244 Lower Ilutt Horough Council .. 400 Napier Cirls' High School .. 433 Total .. .. £ Ift^ioG Local Committees' Functions. Members of the Board have left. Wellington tor the week-end, and have carried v.-ith them suggestions for the setting up of local committees. The Hoard has adopted suggestions made by the North Taranaki Unemployment Belie! Committee, which has set out the functions of the committees as follows: (1) To collect and collate information affecting the problem of unemployment in the district.

(2) To organise individual effort on the part ol residents of the district, with the object of finding temporary work for unemployed men, if only for a few days at a time, on farms, gardens, and in such other avenues as opportunities occur.

(<.{) I'o co-operate with and to assist existing organisations which are administering relief.

(•1) To administer any fund granted by the Hoard to tlx; Committee for the purpose of subsidising on a a for £, basis labour engaged nv any farmer in the district through the committee, for works on his farm, leading to increased production therefrom and coming within the following description:— (a) Celling of bush and ploughing and grassing down of new areas on the farm; (b) stumping; (o) the draining of swamps; (d) harvesting of grass and crops.

(5) To exercise a general supervision over all labour engaged through tho committee. (0) To co-operate with the Board in all matters related to tho relief of unemployment, as the Board may from time to time require. (7) To keep a register sotting out particulars of work offered to any unemployed man, stating whether he accepted such work and if 80 whether he nmde a reasonable effort to give satisfaction. (8) To report to the Board the names of any men declining work or deliberately performing their work in an unsatisfactory manner. (!i) lo appoint local committees in various parts of the districts, the duties of each local committee to be as follows: (a) To obtain and supply to the central committee the local information required by it in regard to any of tho functions of the central committee as above enumerated; Cb) to supervise any labour engaged through the central committee for works in the sub-district in which the local committee functions(c) in all matters relating to the relief of unemployment in the sub-district to co-operate with tho central committee in such a manner as the central committee shall from time to time indicate.

SUBSIDY OFFER

explanation by member OF THE BOARD. "The impression seems to prevail in very many quarters that the Unemployment Board, in its latest offer of a subsidy for certain classes of private work, stipulates that a wage of 14s a day bo paid,'' said Mr K. L. Hutchinson, of Christchurcli, a member of the Board, in •ui interview with a representative' of Itik Phess hist evening. "That* is not the case, as no such stipulation is made, and employers are free to pay whatever wage they wish." "The Board's offer is a subsidy of half the wages paid up to 14s a day," Mr Iluu-hinson continued. "That is so suv that if a farmer or other employer paid 14s a day, the Hoard will pay 7 S of that amount.; if he pays 16s the Boa id V subsidy will still bo 7s ; and if he pays 10s a day the Board's subsidy w jU lie us a day. "The subsidies arc being made available with all possible dispatch, and al-

though I cannot guarantee it, I think that pome of them which local bodies in Chnstchureh arc awaiting, will be available to-morrow. The Board passed t lem as soon as tlio applications wore Passed by the Public Worlts Depart mcnt; but then they had to go to the treasury, and that has resulted in some Uepartmental delay. The machinery for the operation of the No. 2 subsidy scheme is now in. the hands of tho printer."