Established government responsibility for the support of the unemployed, but relief works and payments proved inadequate.[i] The Act established an Unemployment Board, charged with making arrangements with employers for the employment of the unemployed, promoting the growth of primary and secondary industries, and administering a new contributory scheme of sustenance payments to those out of work.[ii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Margaret Tennant, The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government, and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005, 2007, p. 109.
- [ii] go to main content Killian Destremau and Peter Wilson, ‘Defining social investment, Kiwi-style’, in Jonathan Boston and Derek Gill, eds., Social Investment: A New Zealand Policy Experiment, Wellington, 2017, pp. 35–73, p. 34.