"The methods of the Unemployment Board," said Mr 11. J, Ecroyd, at yesterday's meeting of the Christchurelj Unemployment Committee, "remind me of the eld man and his donkey. Ha tried to reduce its food mid had got it down to a straw a day when tho donkey died," He thought that there should be a National Committee tp deal as drastically with unemployment as the special committee of the House was dealing with the economic situation. Ho moved: "That this committee urge the Government to disband the present Unemployment Board and put in its place a National Committee, comprising representatives of all see, tions of Parliament, to grapple with the question from a national standpointy paying out sustenance allow-,-iiicc in so far as funds will allow, until swh time as a < proper reproductive schema can be initiated." There was no seconder, and the motion lapsed.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20342, 15 September 1931, Page 9
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