A WARNING TO THE GOVERNMENT.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The Labour Bureau figures for the past week state that there are 545 unemployed on the list. In addition to these there is a large number of unemployed who never visit the Labour Bureau, preferring to> paddle their own canoe in the search for work, and a still further number who are existing on half or quarter-time employment. Within the last two days a married workman of sober and industrious habits, a colonist of long standing, said it would be the poorest Christmas he had spent in New Zealand for many a long year. He had just walked some ten miles from one of the suburban areas to the city to see if there was any work to be got. When he gets his evening paper he reads of some 500 new hands to arrive in the course of a few days. If this condition *of affairs obtains at this busy period oi tbe year, what will the labour market be like next winter? There will be some hungry people in the city this Christmas. It is about time the Government took a pull on this wholesale immigration business or hunger may yet teach them that it is a more dangerous force than even the unruly Reds.—l am, etc,
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Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 18
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