NEW RELIEF SCHEME

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 222, 13 May 1932, Page 4

NEW RELIEF SCHEME

labour for farmers h The Rotorua Unemployment Co^8 mittee has received from the Un(88 ployment Board a circular setting^B details of a new scheme of un^B. ployment relief to be known as ^^8eme No. 4D. «B I This provides that farmers -9| engage with the local committeeBg give employment to single liieiiHf groups of not less than four and periods of not less than four we^Bc nor more than 26 weeks at a tixne,^®. Unemployment Board paying to 9ffl farmer the sum of 7 76 weekly man toward the cost of food, is to be supplied by the In addition, the Board will to the men the sum of 10/-^» week in the case of men overHp, years of age and 5/- per weel'98) th© case of youths between 18 y8gc and 20 years of age. It is stipulated that men empl0^®;] under the scheme are not to gaged in ordinary routine farm 4Bc but must be employed on work^B definitely deveiopmental charad^B| The board explains that the iKgS' pose of the scheme is to assist ers to increase their areas of tive land, and the concessions it are granted in recogrtition ofHf difficulty most farmers are at Pr^8B experiencing in increasing exp^Bi] ture on labour. 8B'