LAND SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES PROPOSED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 181, 24 March 1932, Page 5

LAND SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES PROPOSED

E ("Post" Special Commissioner.)

I WAGES TA.X ONE SHILLPSfG IN PQP|fD rural allotments with cottages for married men BOARD TO OONTROL ALL RELIRF

I _ WELLINGTON, Wednesday. | Highly important proposals for the relief of unemployment I were announced by the Minister in Charge of Unemployment, the I Right Hon. J. G. Coates, in the House of Representatives this £ afternoon. These include : — | An inerease in the wages tax to a shilling in the pound. I The estahlishment of a rural allotments scheme. The extension of the principle of placing men on existing I farms^ and moying of single men from - cities to highway conI structiqn and other camps. j The provision for accommodation for workers under Scheme j 4a and the extension of Scheme 5 to rural areas. J The development of land drainage, tidal flat reclamation and j the reclamation of virgin land. ' The metalling of backblock roads. Assistance to gold prospectors. Transferenee from hospital boards to the Unemployment ! Board of the responsibility for relief of distress arising out of I unemployment. Under the proposed rural allotments plan holdings of from I five to ten acres will be made available, Accommodation yyill be supplied' and the occupant will be able to work rpart time for neighbouring farmers. In the meantime he may receive a portion of the present relief allowance. Under the new financial arrangements the Consolidated Fund subsidy for unemployment purposes will cease and the cost of " unemployment relief will in future be met wholly out of special taxation. The Bill giving legislative effect to the proposals was intro- j duced this afternoon.