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•Rv the Unemployment Amendment Act, 1932, the Unemployment Board is given the same power to exempt fny peZ grounds of hardship or to postpone the date of payment of the emergency unemployment charge as it has in respect of the general unemployment levy. NATIVES. Si ttht°™lh>tio,r.' Ly /«I,» pe„„ li,U. for the levy, .nd become e„«led to epply in progress M aonßJou tote rf krge f they played a material part mm P Europeans. Meantime, the krge areas of land re°t U aine 7 d for L Maoris' own use under the Native system of common has coincided with the present economy JP~ The work aU altemative tomed to tlerSl n e g co—al system of land occupation Yet their lands are.held in-n^ £ e We «£& and leBS energetic joint owners. , , M • popu i at i o n have become contributors to the " by «*. e.eps ,„ esUb.ieb ft. M.o„ « , dieted towards ««tag tie» o», « m l»d. .i,t '»»»; P fe joint owncrsM . 2?£ E5 ooSeXdt 2£ SS LeeoUtly laboring o.dee „ tantpportabb, burden of taxation. „„ QTl + a + n +l,e Native Department for expenditure on A »< —eo N.W PROSECUTIONS FOR BREACHES OF THE ACT. the above-mentioned date. EXPENDITURE ON UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF IN RECENT YEARS. The Board's report for 1930-31 account of the activities in the relief of expended from the Public CrtLnts of State on works for the relief of unemployment, apart

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