RELIEF WORK

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20738, 23 February 1939, Page 2

RELIEF WORK

INSPECTION OF SCHEMES i MAINTAINING EFFICIENCY (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Thursday Officers of the Department of Labour 1 are to visit all relief jobs throughout ] the Dominion and prepare reports, ac- | cording to an announcement by the H in. P. | Webb, last night. Any men not prov- j lag satisfactory would receive no further payments from the Employment Promotion Fund, the Minister said. He hoped to receive the reports in time to J present them to the Government when it was dealing with the future employ- | ment of those men not absorbed into 1 private enterprise and other work by the time the Social Security Act came into force. “The great bulk of the men employed on Scheme No. i 3 jobs are working just as hard and as efficiently any other section of the community," said Mr Webb. “Unfortunately, a small number of these men, participating at the standard rates of pay, are not playing the : game,” the Minister added. j It was also to be regretted, the Min- j ister said, that a number of employing authorities had utilised relief labour to do work that would ordinarily have been done had the relief scheme not been in existence.