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The following tabulation briefly deals with the extensive field of operations falling within the three main divisions referred to above :— (1) General administration of Employment Promotion Fund, entailing operation of Head Office, bureaux controlled by permanent officers of the Department, and bureaux controlled by officers of the Post and Telegraph Department. (2) Registration of unemployed. (3) Calculation and payment of — (i) Sustenance, with work in return, and (ii) Sustenance, without work in return, to (a) old-age pensioners, (b) warpensioners, (c) invalidity pensioners, (d) economic pensioners, (e) workers' compensation recipients, (/) waterside workers, (y) railways goods-shed workers, (h) freezing-works workers, (j) general intermittent workers, and (h) others. (4) Issue of supplementary relief in the form of — (i) Rations. (ii) Boots. (iii) Blankets. (5) Payment of relief during sickness. (6) Payment of subsidies for full-time work at award rates. (7) Organization of rotational plan of works. (8) Organized prospecting of gold-bearing areas under properly qualified mining engineers and geologists and properly supervised gold-winning operations. (9) Maori unemployment — (i) Grants to Native Department, (ii) Issue of coupons to Natives on sustenance. (1U) Youth employment — (i) Special campaign for absorption of those between eighteen and twenty-five years of age. (ii) Subsidized training in building and related trades. (11) Boy employment: Establishment of special section operating in close co-operation with vocational-guidance officers of the Education Department (four special offices). (12) Inauguration and operation of State Placement Service (twenty-four special offices). (13) Special efforts on behalf of physically disabled men. (14) Financial assistance to Women's and Girls' Committees. (15) Vocational training of — (i) Youths between eighteen and twenty-five years. (ii) Physically disabled. (iii) Boys. (16) Interviewing defaulters in respect of Employment tax. (17) Prosecutions in respect of Employment tax defaulters and of persons defrauding the Fund and general legal work relative to the various schemes. (18) Verification of circumstances of applicants for relief benefits. (19) Issue of transport orders, tools, equipment, &c. (20) Grants towards improvements of school buildings and grounds. (21) Assistance by way of grants and/or financial and labour subsidies towards— (a) Eradication of ragwort and other noxious weeds. (b) Rabbit-extermination. (c) Gold-mining companies. (d) Fruit-growing industry —(i) In respect of increased costs of fruit for sale in New Zealand ; (ii) frost-relief to orchardists ; and (iii) citrus-fruit industry. (e) Coal-mining industry. (/) Flax industry. (y) Fireblight control and eradication. (h) Kauri-gum industry. (i) General land development. (j) Development of " pakiki " land. (k) Woolpacks-manufacture. (!) Railway improvements and duplications. (m) Irrigation projects. (n) River-clearing. (o) Afforestation. (p) Aerodrome-construction. (q) Dangerous railway-crossing elimination. (r) Local-body water and sewerage schemes. (s) Tobacco industry. (t) Farming industry —(i) Scheme 4a : Farmers on own property ; (ii) Scheme 4b : Development works calculated to increas% production of primary products; (iii) Scheme 4]?: Training of youths and young men in farming with view to permanent absorption ; and (iv) Small farm plan : Grants towards capital costs and of sustenance to occupiers.

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