UNEMPLOYMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1931, Page 1

UNEMPLOYMENT

2,142 ABHORRED OX E.AR.WS. ( By Telegraph — Be.) Vre&s Association) WELLINGTON. Ami! y. A statement was made to-day concerning the Unemployment Board’s schemes, .Vos. -IA and 4B (which were devised primarily to encourage (level opinent work on farms, and to induce some of the unemployed in the towns to undertake work in the country), by the Hmi. S. G. Smith (Chairman oi the Board). He said that lm i - present date, a total of 2.142 unemployed men had been absorbed in productive -work under these schemes. The numbers of the men employed in fanning and land development work under the Board’s schemes are as follows ;—Scheme 4A, Inl 6; Scheme 48. 200; Native Trust .(properties, 190; Lands Department, 230; total. 2.142. It was expected, as a result o r 1 ' experience, gained in farm work under these schemes, that many of flic men now employed who hav n hitherto been engaged in city occupations, will prove valuable recruits to the fanning industry. In any case, he said to t!> <» extent that these schemes have relieved Dm congestion of the unemployed in tin' towns, they iiiuy be regarded as valuable factors in restricting Hie spread of unein.nlnyinent. In addition, there was every prospect n r an increase in primary products in the near future.