LIVING ON THEIR SAVINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 113, 16 May 1927, Page 14

LIVING ON THEIR SAVINGS.

UNEMPLOYED CITIZENS. APPEAL BY CLERGYMAN. Yesterday, at the civic service held at St. Paul's Church, Devonport, the Rev. W. Lawson Marsh, MJL, referred to the question of unemployment, citing cases which had come under his own notice. He urged members of the congregation to let him know if they knew of places where men could get work. He knew it was unusual to make such appeals from the pulpit, but the very principles of their religion and the brotherhood which joined them together compelled him to speak of such things when men were so hard put to it to get work. In his prayers he prayed that those seeking work might find it and that prosperity might come to our land. After the service, Mr. Marsh said that the men he had been speairing about were not actually those in want, but rather those who were living on their savings and who had not been able to get work for weeks. It was a ead thing when people who were willing to work were not able to get it. Some of them were a class who were a good way off seeking relief in the ordinary way, but unless things improved their small capital would soon dwindle away. In a new country where there was so much development, unemployment with a properly conceived policy should be almost non-existent Unemployment, which seemed so rife, should never get a grip hold in this favoured country.