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NO RESTORATION

OF BELIEF CUT

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. (Per Press Association Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, May .28. A local bodies deputation to-day asked, the Minister of Employment (the Hon. Adam Hamilton), for the restoration of the ten .per cent. c ut m the relief workens’ time. The deputation represented no fewer than twenty-six local- bodies. Mr D. G. (Sullivan, M.P., the Mayor, who led the deputation,- isaid the 10 per cent, reduction meant a of between £IO,OOO and £50,000 to the Christchurch relief workers. Mr E. H. Andrews, chairman of the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee, said that ,as the result of the cut, .a married man with four or -more dependents was getting lees than £2 a, week to-day. If the Board could restore ..the cut, it would make the little difference that would help a man over l»i s . difficulties.

Mr H. Otley, Hospital Board chairman, said the cut caused demands pn the Board to increase. ' ■ The great trouble at the present time was the want of clothing and boot§, He was nob prepared to say that anyone was actually starving, but now the clothes of th e unemployed were worn out anu 'there was no money to replace them. Mr C. Flnvell, chairman of the •Heathcote County Council, gaid that the reduction i n the time the unemployed were allowed to work had resulted in many men being placed on the verge of starvation. The 'broken time also increased the administrative work tremendously. In reply, Mr Hamilton said that if aj bigger allocation 'were made, jt would mean a bigger burden on the individual taxpayer. The Board would like to give more, but the funds, could not stand the restoration .of the ten per cent, time cut. He; {assured <;• the deputation that the amount, of the voluntary help being ;i given- Christchurch did not affect theWgifo of its allocation!. Hllf-'i ‘ ■ “I thfok I will have?i|!|||i|! that we bhniiot restore the cut,’| .Minister, Hte ' expressed shrj|i|§e|||h:at men had ,refused to go foiUikpdaFd Public Works camps, where hSgivfUl; jiivork was being dope. The \lp|^|}^|ies|l--should be prepared to find the overhead costs; material land supervision. .I ;;

PUBLIC WORKS RELIEF CAMPS. . MEN’S NORMAL EMPLOYMENT. ' When appfodcTie.3 ~ hy a pressman, Mr Jessep^-^eputy'-oha-ifffia-n : 'Unemployment Board, speaking ip re. gaTtf to. the that the i onl-f'-cMn'ge. in .'the circumstance.* is- thatTthe rate of jpayjs r'ow based oh {ten • shillings a day. A close investigation recently- mndo, showed that for ithe period from . July last to March sl] an; Average Qf £3 per week -wfiR —fairly well malnteihed j ,'dj, being' exceeded In some cases. •JcbHp said that work offered at ten shillings per day. in the Public Works Department camps was not relief work, it was normal employment at the ruling rat-eg of pay, The Unemployment Board’s funds were subscribed from the pockets of citizens, thousands of whom were themselves in little better case than the relief workers. The duty of the Board was to care -to the he*t »jt its ability fot the margin of surplus labour that remained when all normal employment offering 'ivas filled. ' 'Y : .' " The Board had. no legal responsibility to men who refused such normal employment. The Public Works Departjanientd camps where. 10s per day was jpaid, came under this heading. The 1 Board had, therefore, held that if any .able-bodied man declined, without .adequate reason, work that wag offering, he himself absolved the Board from further responsibility towards him. The condition of his unemployment became voluntary. The Board could only deal with involuntary unemployment. :

Discussing the camps maintained bv the Unemployment Relief Board, he said that remuneration was necessarily lower. As work could not be. brought to the city relief worker, there was no alternative but; to take him to work. There was nothing unusual, in a man absenting himself from home for periods when it was essential to provide .for his wife and familyr RELIEF WORKERS’ CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON, May 27. Relief workers organisation in'.all part. s of the Dominion are represented at a conference which commenced at Wellington to-day, and which is expected to continue for several days.. The object of the conference, which is being attended by forty delegates, representing over 30,000 registered unto form a national movement‘with a national policy.. Mr J R. 'Scott, president ‘ of the Wellington relief workers’ union, is chairman of the conference which is not open to the press. ■ £IOO btqueathed IN WILL. CHRISTOFURCH, May 27 • A cheque fo r '‘*l33, representing a special bequest under the will of the late Mr Mark Davis, has been received by the Mayor (Mr D. G ; Sullivan, IM P.) The money is to be used by the Mayor for distribution to widows end orphans of-Christchurch. In forwarding the cheque the trustees state

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
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NO RESTORATION Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 5

NO RESTORATION Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 5

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