THE UNEMPLOYED

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1933, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED

DOMINION FIGURES

REGISTRATIONS TOTAL 50,940

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WELLINGTON, November 13.

The applicants for work on registers of the Government Unemployment Bureaux at October 28, numbered 50,940. Of these, there were 3,338 unplaced, or who were ineligible for unemployment relief for various reasons.

There were 43,178 on the register who were receiving part, time relief, under Scheme No. 5.

Those whose relief wages were supplemented for full-time employment numbered 3,709.

There were 715 intermittent workers who received supplementary assistance under Scheme No. 5. This last category included waterside workers, coal miners, and goods shed em-. ployees.

Excluding the gold prospectors, the number receiving relief under Scheme No. 5 was 47,602. Of this total it was estimated that 17,500 were employed in development and reproductive work that was calculated to benefit the Dominion primary industries. Under Scheme 6 there were 2,541 workers, principally married men, employed by the Public Works Department at standard rates of pay. There were 4,013 gold miners apd prospectors and 98 miscellaneous. The number of workers engaged in industrial undertakings whose earnings were being subsidised from the. Unemployed Fund, totalled 28,647. This total was made up of 10,968 farm workers under Schemes 4A, 4B;. etc. There were also 7,404 building tradesmen and builders’ labourers.

Under Scheme 10, there were 3,623 workers, principally single men, in Public Works State Forest and local body camps. '■ '

MAN.ViWA.TU RELIEF CAMP

•MASTEiRTON, November 13

Owing to a large number of the men ■in that camp securing other employ--1 ment of a more permanent and substantial nature, the Mastei'ton County Council have decided to close thj Glendonald camp, which is one of four single .men’s relief camps in the county. If the necessity arises, the camp will be re-opened. At the peck period the men in these camps totalled 160, .whereas there .are now about 90 single m,en therein.

LARGE MEETING AT HASTINGS

TWO RESOLUTIONS CARRIED.

HASTINGS, November 13

The following resolutions dealing with the recent reductions made; iii the allocation of work to the unemployed, and with other matters affecting unemployment generally, were passed unanimously by a largely attended meeting held in Hastings this evening:

“That .this meeting, representative of the commercial, professional and local body interest in this district, appeals to the G’overnmenfc to restore immediately, the same allocation ns obtained in September last, as the reduction now imposed will create untold hardship and suffering o n those citizens who are already in a condition of acute impoverishment and who are forced to accept relief work.”

“That this meeting urges upon the Government the urgent need for the acquirement pf further lands in this district for the purpose of subdivision into small holdings for the relief workers, being of the opinion that such a scheme offers one of tho most promising avenues of permanent employment to th© relief workers.” •'

These two resolutions are to be presented to He Minister of Employment by Mr H. M. Campbell. M. P., who was nresent at the meeting. . In addition it was resolved to instruct a sub-committee, appointed from the mceetiug, to seek to obtain from the Minister, full information concerning the receipts and the exofinditure of the unemployment fund »nd also, information of the reserve if any, and the purposes for which +hev ar.'.i intended, and also information concernin'* the c ource of the advances, ostensibly from the unemolnvment fund, to the local bodies and to private institutions.