B2 UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1932, Page 2

B2 UNEMPLOYED

ON WHOM IS RESPONSIBILITY?

SERIOUS PLIGHT OF WORKER

(Per Press Association— Copyright.) •mtfrr..; .WELLINGTON, August 29.

The serious- plight of unemp.oyeci men classi.tiede ah Hi, who have been ieifc, as, on©-.,,member put l it, ‘ mjie o, less ;in '-the'- :an’’, tnrough the -he-'.'i-tancy t° accept i-esponsib.iity fo, them by the Unemployment Board on the one hand and the hospital board', on (the other, was: emphasised/.at a meeting of the ./Wellington Board yesterday. '-■ ■ . 1 ihe,.. question arose upon presentation of . the report ointne. Social :AVelfare Committee, the chairman, Air G. Pet-h----erick,: stating that quite a number of ftlfSii had been ■ sent to the eo-m----:mitteet,Jor relief. At its meeting on Tuesday Jast the committee deemed to j recommend . the board to reaffirm a resolution. parsed on June 3 ito the effect that the : board was not preparea to accept, J; financial responsibility for relief .grants to unemployed persons except ..those r inghpled fin classes C and U. . ,„.1 - /::{■'

iTn .ja , , general. , discussion members agreed .that it, was. impossible to extend financial responsibility unless the Unemployment , re.mbursGd expenditure for. .relief granted to class B2 ■, inen. . .. The ' :Mr F. Qagtle, sa’d that from, ipeju;ivies - made he had asterta'ihed ..iliat .the,'.lucKland board 'vaa not making .provision, (or. any inen able to work, .the’.responsibility being thrown on[ the yhpn|ploymenit , Board. In Christchurch-th, s'board, there had been asked to .Vorlf for .B2 men if passible, but much the. same' existed. A 'letter was read from the Unemployment Board in which an appeal was made to the board not to draw too hard land fast a line between their responsibilities and thpse of the Unemployment Board, -and ' the suggestion w T as made that on receipt of a' certificate. from -.the local unemployment bureau to the effect that no suitable t;ht ..work. was availably, the Soc;aelf are' Committee should agree, to deal’ with a B2 man’®' application for assistance. from the..j>oa-rd., • Mrs A. McVicar said that the posl- - serious .olie.. B2 men appeared to be nobody’s chidren. After further discussion the resolution of June 3 was reaffirmed.