"A FIASCO"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8

"A FIASCO"

PROTEST BY COMMITTEE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . ASHBURTON,.This Day. ' No satisfaction having been received to several appeals to the Unemployment Board for more co-operation and more confidence in its members, tho Ashburton unemployment committee has come to the conclusion that its meeting, is only a fiasco, and that it is useless to carry on. The- chairman. (Mr. W. H. Woods, who is also the Mayor) said that the committee was working in the dark. Tho Board s apparently was afraid to show, something to the committee. He considered the Board's action a breach of faithi "I feel very reluctant to say: that this-committee should not meet again,", he said: "Its efforts are clearly not appreciated,-and its apparently, do not, justify the confidence of the.^Board.'Small districts are not getting a fair deal, and any savings made there are going to tho benefit of the large centres." The following motion, moved by Mr. G. .Kelly county clerk, and seconded by Mr. W. G. Gallagher, chairman of the Lyttelton.Harbour Board," was carried unanimously:—"That this committee feels .that under the new regulations of the, Unemployment Board in regard to allocation, its' services in that respect are not; wanted,, and that it therefore meet only when other business necessitates its meeting." The "Mayor was authorised to send a letter to the Board stating that the action had been found necessary, as a resul£ fif tho lack of co-operation between the Board and tho committee, and by the withholding of essential information regarding the basis of allocations. ■ ■ - ■