Government Varies Subsidies for Relief
From Saturday's I .
UNEMPLOYMENT WORKS ELIMINATION OF MINIMUM Press Association. WELLINGTON# Saturday. The Prime Minister stated today that the Government had decided to vary the conditions applying to the payment of subsidies to local bodies in respect of approved works undertaken for the relief of unemployed. The conditions obtaining last year will be varied to provide that the subsidy on wages up to the rate of 12s and 9s a day shall be paid on all labour, irrespective of what proportion the labour forms of the total cost of the undertaking and irrespective of the 60 per cent, minimum which formerly applied. It was also decided that cartage and transport specially used on such work shall be subsidised, for drivers up to 12s and 9s a day and at the £ for £ rate on the actual running cost of vehicles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 377, 11 June 1928, Page 13
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