UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT.

WORK ON FARMS. UNlOl* MSCUSSES . ' 1 t s •; Being of the opinion that the Un- * employment Board is not conversant with thb tfeecW «#< f&hnetfl ii fefcfft-d to subsidised work under Scheme 4a. and , 4b, the North Canterbury executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterdikj- feet comhiitiee to bring down recommendations to that body.. The Unemployment Board'wrote ask* '■£ assistance of the" Union in re- t lieruig unemploymettt br taking ftftva.li- ' >•>> tage of Schemes No. 4a And 4b for - placing unemployed men in developmental work on rearms! Scheme to.pro- " ' J videsfor subsiding. ifrßekly wages, for V|s a period of from one to six mouths, and, *.i : Schema No. 4b provides for 6ubai<Us- -i ing contract labour. - '* "> Fanners Need Help. Mr Wt W. Mulholland said that the Board was deserving of alt tho assist- _= -ft ahce that farmers we re AWA '.td eitetod - to it, but it ehdttld not be forgdtten that most "farmers would requite a 100* ■pbr cent, subsidy to enable the proposals to J - 1 be carried but. Throughout the country ' - " B there, was a lot of productive,.'work ,_ .which might be undertaken proyidedtthe* H. Mit wa* not t66 high, but fa&afetfs Wddld "- >■ need to be given more help, than the Board aeeiqed - able, to provide: for jt. -. * The jbo&m app&reity had a A&zy l idea of what was required and was un-!" ■ able to express a clear definition of the - i . Mtork. One of th 6 d£, the: ttoiOtf Would db it ft' real fi&ViM if It ; offered to co-derate with it Off-tiail^esipig Mr 2k G. ?arrieh said.that,he could , find work fot men under -i ne proposals, * but he did not feel disposed to wau ;§ hoi-se ana dray to ha did „->? not know. It Wolild thbfefb'Jfe be, i-srnj£ move to Sit Up, & £artt»r&' cOamHt.ee ' ,$o go into the question tylth the 1 Publicity Needed. '*/?$ The president (Mr C. MclntosbY>eaid ih« difiiknltiee Mflhtiaaed by M£ % could t»e overcome ashad heen in Bangiora. The Board making every effort tp solve the problem sjuLt- - f j?j he felt sura that if tlu Union otfenfti * its assistance this eduti pli&heA. tfhe matter'bristled ijfj cnltien, however, and .jthe kotatf aot be obstructed in any ir&y. essential to gije thfe flcfremeil r publicity as to thing possible-to. assist the viewthat ttspy' an. 1 even tf^™raaßpWßj the •Ml ftpinioil '4f d tW' i|i« Wisted' winter," Mr" Armfltr<falg; j "b6 to .remain ' Oh 'tillß' motioh, of.-Mr seconded-by Jtr"Armet^ohg,^it cided that the 1 Fuiaace instki|tfld; i«, tioa- as it affected iarmers -jtatp given power to make' recdmmfin^a^hTWpmß

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