SINGLE MEN’S PAY
RELIEF-WORKS CUT SUGGESTED
NOT GOVERNMENT POLICY Press Association PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Wednesday. The suggestion that the wages of single men on relief works should be reduced is not favoured by the Government. The Hon. R. Scott asked the Leader of the Legislative Council whether, in view of the economic condition of the Dominion and the urgent need for increased production, the time has not now arrived when the wages of single men employed by the Government on relief works should be immediately reduced in order to enable primary producers to obtain assistance so urgently needed at this season of the year. The wages now being paid to single men by the Government was inducing farm employees to leave their present employment in all parts of the Dominion. “It is not considered that the scheme which the Government is adopting to provide work for unemployed will result in inducing farm employees to leave their employment,” said the Hon. T. K. Sidey, in reply, "and as a matter of Government policy it is not proposed to reduce the wages paid to single men placed on relief works.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 16
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187SINGLE MEN’S PAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 16
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