WORK FOR 5,000

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 10

WORK FOR 5,000

GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES INTENTION 640 REJECT OFFER Press Association WELLINGTON. Today. The Government announced today completion of plans to absorb almost immediately 5.000 unemployed. 1 It is officially stated that during the week 2.765 men were offered work and , 640 refused to accept it. Tlie figures j for unemployed at present stand at j 6.206. A meeting today of the Cabinet . committee dealt with the Government’s employment proposals. Those i given employment, included 215 tradesmen, and the men were at work in i various parts of the country. At the meeting of the committee plans were completed for employing i shortly, as circumstances warranted. l an additional 2.400 men. Up to 200 | tradesmen were provided for in that quota.

It was stated that there had been little change in the number of registrations since the figures were last published. The figures on October 9 were 6,ISS, while today they stood at 6,206.

REGISTRATION TOTALS STOPPING OF PUBLICATION DID NOT TALLY THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Tues. The reason for the stopping of the publication of unemployment registration figures was asked of the Minister of Labour, the Hon. W. A. Veiteh, by Mr. H. M. Campbell. Hawke’s Bay. The Minister replied that publication had been authorised for a few da3 r s, but it had been found that the published figures did not synchronise with those of other departments concerned in the scheme of unemployment relief. Until the figures were synchronised they could not be published.