SCHEME NO. 5

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1931, Page 2

SCHEME NO. 5

FORTNIGHT’S SUSPENSION, APPEAL TO LOCAL BODIES, ‘‘Drastic revision of the rules govern* Jpg the administration of the Unemployment Hoard’s relief schemes lifts necessitated the temporary suspension of Scheme No. 5,” stated the Hon, the Minister of Labour (Mr S, G, Smith), who is Chairman of the Board, in an interview, “Advice of this suspension was forwarded to the Local Bodies othe Dominion on 2nd instant, but it is desired to again direct their attention, and that of the public generally, to the urgent need for complete co-operation with the Unemployment Board if the spectre of unemployment is to be kept in check. “The suspension of Scheme No. 5 will take effect on and from 13th April and will continue in force until 25th April, and it is hoped that during that period the Local Bodie s will use thenutmost endeavour to find work for tile unemployed. For the past five months the Unemployment Board has carried a burden far in excess of that anticipated by the people of the Dominion, and in doing so greatly relieved the strain on the funds of local authorities, In view of this fact and of the strengthened finances which local bodies may now rely upon at the beginning of their new financial year, the Unemployment Board confidently appeals to them to carry tile burden of finding work during the fortnight’s suspension of the relief scheme, “Help for Local Bodies in the prose* on Lion of work will he resumed under the amended scheme, but in the mean, time no relief work will lie authorised by the Unemployment Board under Scheme No, S.”