RELIEF WAGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 393, 29 June 1928, Page 8

RELIEF WAGES

PRIME MINISTER PRESENT RATES* 05 REPLY TO DEPUTATION 1 ■ 1 Payment of the pre-. m ' rates of wage for unJmJT r * l "‘ defended by the Prin-.e M ? °* ed i a letter replying to deputation. the Mr. Coates has sent the letter to Mr. p. Fraser. M p to . the deputation which ’ raised the question of employed and the rate of w a ' or * Reterring to representatw. were made to my coll/jL ***» Acting-Minister of the question of increasing mVV®* employed on relief works is inform you that the matter haT* 3 been considered in Cabinet l3k ' is regretted no increase » ent rate, viz.. 9s for single 12s for married men. can to. C “You will, I know, fully .w*. the fact that the GoveiS?* carrying a large proportion ® ® a ployed at the present time your information i would * that, in addition to approrS: * 7.000 men who are receiving rates of pay, or who are enSS* co-operative contracts bases * ll standard rates, over 3,400 P* been offered relief work, it should recognised that 9s and Us . *• mum rates for those employed lief works, and that, whenever * sible co-operative contracts are which enable men to receive » ’ than the specified relief rates ot " ' It has also been made noZu **• local bodies to engage the senvyt* approximately 2,000 men as th* of Government subsidv t 0 local i/T for certain approved works “Relief works are not of an nature, nor are they of necessity, but they have UP in order to give men who find employment elsewhere a of relief, until such time as confer/ improve, and will permit of them ,/* ing up work in other avenues"