UNEMPLOYMENT
WELLINGTON’S PROBLEM.
SPECIAL GRANT SOUGHT.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, July 7
The seriousness oL the local unemployment situation pending the finalisation of legislation was emphasised at a meeting to-day of the local Unemployment Board, and local members of Parliament.
Advice was received from the Unemployment Board restr'eting the amount available for unemployment relief, equivalent to the addition of 840 men to the number it was already impossible to employ owing to lack of funds.
Both Reform and Labour members present agreed the RJI was likely to prove contentious, and it was improbable therefore it would pass in less than a week.
It was decided that a deputation from the Unemployment Committee wait upon the Prime Minister, with the object of obtaining immediately a grant which will absorb all the unemployed in the district with the object of giving plenty of time to discuss the Bill later.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1931, Page 5
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