UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 221, 12 May 1932, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

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SOCIAL AND CHURCH WORKERS URGE BETTER PROVISION DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

— By Telegraph— Copyright).

WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Representatives of the churches and social organisations waited on the Hon. J. G. Coates -to-day to urge that better provision should he -made for unemployed women,' and that women should he provided for out of the unemployment taxatiqn. Mr. Coates said a committee was investigating the position throughout New Zealand, and was consulting and advising local organisations, with a • view to making yecommendatiohs to ,53!C the U nemploy meht Board. One .of the deputation's requests was that married women should he invited by the Government to draw off the lahour market whei'e they Kad husbands to support them. "No woman shall he forced to the Rocks of Despair or destitution as long as there remains any income from which taxation can be raised for their protection," Mr. Coates said, as far as women and children were concerned, they were being provided for as a result of the relief that is 'granted to married men. The new scale of relief was designed specially to help married men, and wliereas previously families with two children were treated on an equality with a man and wife only, under the revised scale special account was takenof children. It must still be admitted that where there were larger families and special circumstances extra provision would have to he made. Qon- ' sideration would therefore_Ke_given