UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD
QUEST FOR MORE .MONET. < liji Tele.ijraph —Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, May 11. The Minister, for Labour, Hon. Mr Smith, to-day informed the Christchurch Unemployment Committee that the Unemployment Board’s financial positon is now serious. He said tintotal income from, the levy and of the subsidy from the Consolidated Fund was £1,200,000. . At p resent, he said, under the No. ■ Scheme, the cost of the Board was £f.0,0.)0 a week. If this rate were con. tinned for 89 weeks, the Board "'would exceed its total income by £7o(),(>00. The Minister said that at present a Committee of the Cabinet was .considering ways and means of finding money to enable the Board to do something -upplemei.tary to what it was doing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 3
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121UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 3
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