N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1931, Page 3

N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

NEW RULES. (Bn Tclcyrapk —-Per Pi cks .1 snocintiirii) WELLINGTON, February 26. The Minister of .Labour issues the following new rules in connection with unemployment relic! That the worker shall he allowed to work his days in the following iortnight, if lie is unable to work on the ■ days originally allotted an account of j wet weather. Where any watorsidors, coal miners, and railway goods shed emergency casual workers register as unemployed, they may be offered work under Scheme Number 5 on the billowing basis: On registration at the beginning of the month, they should lie required to give a certificate from their employ, or as to to their coming within the definition etc., also as to the number ol days on which they were unemployed on the wharf, in the coal mine, or in the goods shed during the previous month and as to the total amount of tlicoearnings during that month. For each six working days so unemployed, they are to be given an order by the Labour Bureau Officer, or of'.or certifying officer. acting in his stead, for worlc on a local authority, the conditions ill connection with which are fully set out, but are too long to quote. Tt is also announced that arrangements have' been made whereby, in deserving eases, youths of eighteen and nineteen years may be able to obtain employment under Scheme lA. The Wellington Hospital Beard agreed to make a specail contribution of £7OO to the City Council in co’i-1 nection with unemployment relief, the I Council having undertaken to find work for a period of six to eight weeks for those unemployed men who j arc receiving assistance from the social welfare department of the hospital. OPPONENT OF LEVY, William Martin, charged with inciting lawlessness by distributing a pamphlet violently advert',, to the unemployment levy, and calling for a refusal to pay, and the holding up of | jobs and generally defying the law on the matter. came before Mr E. Page, S.M., to-day. Nothing could' lio done with the man, however, ns he ! had no money to pay any fine, and was already undergoing' a seven years’ sentence for a criminal offence. He was convicted and discharged.