N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1932, Page 5

N.Z. UNEMPLOYED

LATEST FIGUKES 73,000 DEPENDENT ON RELIEF. (Per Press Association Copyright.) WELLINGTON, Sep. 13. A total of 73,241 men were wholly or partly dependent upon relief from the Unemployment Board during, the week ended 3rd," according to a statement issued to-day by the Acting-Minister of Employment. In addition to being the first review of the registrations under the new policy of publishing the figures only once a month, the statement contained the first official analysis of the actual manner in which the relief .workers are being employed. The number of men remaining on the registers of the unemployment' bureaux throughout the Dominion during the week ended September 3rd was 56,456, said the Minister. “There lias been little variation in the total of the registrations during the preceding four weeks,” he continued. * “Of this number 49,380 were in receipt of relief through Scheme No. 5, leaving 7,076 men unplaced during the week under review. Moat of these men were, for various reasons, ineligible for relief under- the Unemployment Board’s schemes.” i , In addition to the figures quoted above, there were 16,785 men in employment provided through the medium of assistance granted from the unemployment funa. Tli6 details are as follows: Subsidised employment on farms under Schemes 40. 48, the farm camp scheme, ec.—12,945. Camp schemes (mostly single men), land improvement and development—--1,350. Highways and backblock roads—--1,250. ‘' ■ * ;; ' " Building subsidy scheme—lo,B3o. Gold prospecting schemes (exclusive of 1,242 men prospecting under Scheme 5)—260. : Miscellaneous—lso. T0ta1—16,785. • It will be seenj therefore, that 66/165 men ,were in one way, or another a charge, on the.. unemployment Fund during the Week under review, while if the unplaced men be included, there was a total of 83,241 wholly or partly dependent.upon relief from the Unemployment Board. It is estimated that of the 66,165men quoted, at least 36,000 were engaged on developmental ''.Reproductive work in connection with the Dominion’s primary industries. BOARD’S ESTIMATE EXCEEDED. RELIEF DURING THE WINTER. WELLINGTON, September IS. Although the Unemployment Board’s Income for the financial year was esu- > mated at a figure which would enable it to spend £69,000 per week, uopn all activities, It is understood ‘ authoritatively that the Board has recontly been spending at the rate of approximately £90,000 per week. Shortly before'he left for Ottawa, the Minister of Employment arranged that authority should,be given by the Government to enable the Board to spend considerably more than its normal income each week during the-win-ter months. The Board have made available an extra £16,000 per week between June and September, Unless further provision is made in the near future to continue this extra financial assistance, it will cease. This extra money was stated, at the time, to be needed for providing additional relief in the rural districts where the assistance was not on. the same basis as that in the urban areas.