FINDING WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1934, Page 18

FINDING WORK

FEILDING PROPOSALS

(By Telegraph.— Press Association.) FEILDING, March 27. A sub-committee of the l^eilding Chamber of Commerce, set up recently to confer with representatives of tho -Peilding relief workers on unemployment matters in ■ Feilding, reported it last night's meeting of the chamber The sub-committee placed before the chamber the following suggestions from the unemployed with a recommendation that they should be placed before tho Hon. J. G. Cobbe, member for tho clistmt — "That the Unemployment Board make grants-in. approved cases to enable relief workers to start in business. "Tfiat a means test be applied to those applying.for subsidies for moneys paid to relief Workers under the No. 10, 4a and 4b schemes. "That the 'over-the-fence' No. 5 scheme bo abolished. "That, the Government be requested to inaugurate a publicity campaign appealing to all employers of labour to •re-employ as many as possible without a subsidy from the board. "That the Government be requested to invito applications from unemployed men who desire to go 011 "the land, and that such men be placed in groups on undeveloped- or partly-developed land, the men to bo paid for work done and have' the right to take up a section when the land is ' sufficiently developed to permit of,-farming operations being carried on. "That tho Government be urged to adopt a system of compulsory acquisition of land suitable for small farm settlement as a means of reducing unemployment. "That the Government be urged to inquire into the possibilities of the Angora rabbit industry.as a means of reducing unemployment."