Unemployment
Sir,—Your editorial writer must be very naive if he thinks the only unemployed in New Zealand are the 1951 registered. I have been watching , the situation since the National Party manufactured the depression in 1967, and I know for a fact that there are far more unregistered unemployed than registered. There are at least 20 people for every job advertised. It is, therefore, nonsense for your writer to say that there has been no shortage of work for those able and willing to look for it. Apart from the thousands of young people unemployed there are those, like myself, who are over 50 and are victimised because of their age. I am an experienced writer and artist and have experience in journalism and advertising, but I can’t get a job anywhere. It is shocking that so many hundreds should be denied the right to work.— Yours, etc., ARTHUR L. WALKER. August 31, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32391, 2 September 1970, Page 16
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