THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1938.
Unemployment Rates To Be Increased In England
London, To-day.
Increases in the rates of unemployment insurance benefit and other concessions to contributors were announced by the Minister of Labour in the Commons.
He said the report of the Un- employment Insurance Statutory Committee upon the financial condi- tion of the unemployment fund, re- commended, as regards the general account that there should be an in-
AT WIT'S END
crease from 9 to 10 shillings in Sir,-After occupying my present weekly rate of benefit in respect of flat for over a year, during which wives and other adult dependents, time I have never failed to pay my and an increase in the
rent promptly every month, I have period of benefit to which contri-received notice to vacate at the end butors with good insurance records of March. were entitled.
maximum
The cost of these concessions was estimated at £15,000,000 per annum and was recoverable in part by the repayment of £20,000,000 of debts out of the reserve.
AGRICULTURAL SCHEME
For over a week I have tried hard to find a place to move into, but it seems impossible to get anything suitable at
reasonable rent nowadays. The rents of all the flats I inspected were far beyond. my humble means.
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As regards the Agricultural Ac- count, the Committee recommended I am just one of Hong Kong’s be thousands of office assistants and that the waiting period should reduced from 6 to 3 days, that the can only just manage to make ends joint weekly rate of contribution in meet. Now what am I to do? My somehow; respect of contributors of eighteen family must be housed years and upwards should be reduc-but where we are to find ed by one halfpenny for each party, home I cannot see. and that the weekly rate of benefit for the young from 18 to 21 should be raised from 10/6 to 12/6.
The condition requiring ten con-- tributions as a requalification for benefit should be abolished except when the applicant had drawn the maximum of 300 days' benefit in a year. The cost of these concessions was estimated at £222,500 per an-
num.
Mr. Ernest Brown said he propos- ed, subject to Parliamentary appro- val, to give effect to these recom- mendations.-British Wireless.
Mr. George Fitch, for many years general secretary of the Shanghai Foreign Y.M.C:A. and until recently Director of the refugee safety zone in Nanking, arrived in Hong Kong last Sunday on the Gneisenau.
a new
I heartily endorse the suggestion put forward by Mr. J. P.-Braga in his eloquent letter, and I appeal to our Government to do something for us soon.
Yours, etc,
"At Wits End.
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS
The forthcoming wedding. of Mr. Francis Joseph Anslow, of the Har- the bour, Department, residing at Harbour View Hotel, and Miss Joy Sylvia Booker, eldest daughter of Police Chief Inspector F. E. Booker, has been announced to take
place shortly.
Elizabeth
Keam,
He will speak to the English Discussion Club of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Bridges Street while he is waiting for his boat to return to the United States on Monday. Mr. Miss Patricia Fitch has undergone many experien-nursing sister of the Queen Mary ces while in Nanking during the Hospital, and Dr. Hugh Cameron dangerous period of the capture of Watson, of Sassoon Villas, Pokfu that city and is, therefore, qualified lam, have announced their to speak on the events.
coming marriage.
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