UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 247, 18 October 1928, Page 9

UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY.

PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED.

INSURANCE SCHEMES TO BE

INVESTIGATED.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesdav,

Ihe personnel of the special committee which the Government has appointed to investigate the problem of unemployment in the Dominion was announced bv the Prime Minister, Mr. Coates, in his speech here this evening.

The committee will comprise Messrs W. D. Hunt and T. 0. Bishop, represent mg the employers; Messrs J. Roberts and O. Mcßrine, representing i'»e employees, and Messrs. Malcolm Fraser. Government Statistician, and H. D. Thomson, Under-Secretary for Immigration representing the Government.

Mr. Coates justified the Government's efforts to relieve unemployment, quoting figures to show that Xew Zealand was better off in this respect than most other countries. He said it had been advocated that a complete safeguard against unemployment could be given by a scheme of insurance. The Government would ascertain whether some system of insurance would be practicable, but many economists feared that such a method of protection might be more a palliative than a panacea. The Govern ment was making thorough inquiry into the working of snch schemes in other narts of the world, and would take anv action which would be justified by such investigation.

j At his request tlie Government Statis tieian had collecting and collating statistics in regard to the classes of men registered at the Labour bureaux throughout the Dominion. This information would be submitted to the special committee, which would make a thorough investigation of the problem of unemployment. He felt. confident the committee would be able to make helpful recommendations to clear the way for the best possible use of the coun try's available man-power and to set out lines for the satisfactory absorption of suitable immigrants when factors again became favourable for attracting the right types, of people to New Zealand.