HARBOUR BOARD GIFTS
VALIDATING LEGISLATION TO BE INTRODUCED UNEMPLOYMENT AND CANCER THE SCAT'S Parliamentary Reporter PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Tuesday. It is possible that during the session validating legislation will i>e introduced to provide for such bodies a? harbour boards to make contribution t«> unemployment relief and cancer re search funds out of revenue. Instead of out of unauthorised expenditure. Thes~ bodies generally have no work to pur unemployed on. Mr. 11. T. Armstrong (Labour — Christchurch East), who is chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, asked an urgent question of the Prime Minister today .s to whether the Government would validate during the session harbour board grants from revenue »o -Hst cancer and unemployment fund-. The harbour board had no work to cive the uremployed and if it contributed to tlie cancer fund out of un- | authorised expenditure the amoun: would have to be very small. Mr. Forbes said that the Government 1; d decided to bring in validating legislation for contributions to the Cancer Research Fund and and would consider the question of validating harbour board c ontributions to unemployment relief funds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1013, 2 July 1930, Page 11
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