BISHOP CRITICAL

Evening Star, Issue 22147, 30 September 1935, Page 8

BISHOP CRITICAL

SUGGESTIONS FOR ALLEVIATING DISTRESS LOCAL CONTROL OF UNEMPLOYED [Pek United Pkess Association.] HAMILTON, September 30. Strong criticism of existing social conditions, and some constructive suggestions for alleviating unemployment were made by the Bishop of Waikato (the Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrington) in his monthly parish letter. His suggestions embody doing away with the Unemployment Board and placing the responsibility for the unemployed on the shoulders of borough councils and county councils, who could look after the unemployed in their own boroughs or counties. The administration of the fund would then be free of charge, and the taxes collected would go to the people for whom they were collected. There was something wrong when a man was expected to maintain a wife and family on 27s 6d a week. Further, Bishop Cherrington advocated forbidding a law which was a glaring injustice. A “ week’s notice ” was supposed to be attached to a weekly wage, and all workers,, should have reasonable notice. “ I suppose there is nobody who knows anything about it who is satisfied with the. way our unemployed in this country have been looked after. We pay large enough taxes, and would willingly pay more if it were wanted, but the hugo < surplus in hand, and the further lowering of this particular tax surely shows that there is something panting somewhere,”.