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Tee policy of the Unemployment Board,< shows nosiyn of ' memding. ’There are;, various animnocemients from time to’ time, and often they are contradictory'. The latest is; just revealed. When Mr '‘.Coates announced Ins “over the feno>j” policy it was'\*jup poSed to be for/ the assista’nde of tj*> farmer, and in/'par-ticu-lar that the V men might do snore ! useful;.work than- shipping -'grass. off the roadside. New::" the Hoard announces the scheme' is for the benefit of the unemployed,; though' in .what:, 1 way is not clear. .The' average -.local body will probably'see that the \men are (employed a*s usefully as posable, but under the present rationed sy stem it is, not; possible always to employ'the 7 men" is' usefully as they might. Tbe suggestion made to ha nd the avail ab *l© labour- over to the Public Works /'Department for national work, is jv o-w being met in part: but /only in r ather a. small way. If-itliis were .done in a wholesale manner , the'; labour y-pould bis- organised to the best- advantage. As the various schemes are operating, there is a heavy weekly .expt^iditure froith hibney for which the- people are being taxied, but it ; would be‘ difficult to prove that ,tbe country isjobtaining value to the amount of fifty,: per cent, of the outgoing.. The time //will come , when, there wifi outcry against the waste going on, and the authorities “limy ;tjrus r/ejalise, the,; effect . of their policy. As, regards the/- expenditure? by local bodies, it j would be better w'ene the Baird to Allocate a definite hmouht pie^ l ifcontk permit work' to he kid off /.and 1 carried out. by tender. In that way there, would' be n hotter, return for the espe«ditu(ro. and more useful and permanent work could he done. Wdek by week the. number of. .unemployed ,is increasing,; making it all the more necessary for; the 4 schemes of expenditure-- to- be 1 re-; .vised, so-that with some definite allcoa- : tiont of money over, a period, the local ; body, or .the Public , Works Department, or other controlling body, mightlay off work of national value and have it done well under proper supervision' or by contract, when the men would fe.4. ; mpi-e independent and give much better value for the sum available.

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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 4

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377

Untitled Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 4

Untitled Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 4

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