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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1932, Page 11

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UNEMPLOYMENT TAXATION. ACTING-MINISTER'S VIEW. REVIEW OF BOARD'S EFFORTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. That New Zealand, with a population of 1,500,000 people, had reached the limit of taxation in finding £3,500,000 a year for the relief of unemployment was the view expressed by the Hon. A. Hamilton, acting-Minister of Employment, at tho annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to-day. - This £;f,500,000, he eaid. was collected by taxation, and it was the Government's job to make it go as far as possible. Industries would have to adjust themselves to the new conditions. One redeeming feature was that New Zealand wae carrying unemployment costs out of revenue, and the country should have at least £2,000,001 to show in improvements after the expenditure of £3,500,000. Mr. Hamilton said 0000 men were working on No. 4a scheme. He asked fanners not to create an atmosphere that the farmer was getting cheap labour. One thousand men were employed under No. 4b scheme, providing for men engaged on contracts on farms, and there wore other schemes providing for the employment of men on farms. If a farmer was prepared to establish camps for unemployed men the board would go a long way to aeeist him. Forty thousand men were employed under the No. 5 scheme by local bodies, and 14,000 of these were "over the fence," working on farms. Mr. Hamilton said echeme fia dealt with camps on highways, and 1700 men were working under this scheme. No. 7 scheme provided for the employment on farms of boys who had juet left school. It would do any boy good to spend three years on a farm, and farmers could help by taking as many boys as possible. Scheme Sa was gold prospecting. The small farm plan, Mr. Hamilton proceeded, wae another meane of finding work for people. He thought that this would help to solve the unemployed problem as much as anything. If a fanner wanted a sharemilker, the Unemployment Board would provide £250 to build a cottage, which tho farmer would repay in 10 years. The board would also lease 10 acres from any farmer and settle a married couple upon it. The board would provide them with sustenance for the first few months. Everyone knew that farmers were suffering, but at least they had plenty to eat. There were people in the cities, however, who were in dire straits, and the Government wanted to get as many of them into tho country as possible. He hoped fanners would not think of people who were better off, but of those who were worse off.