ATTACK ON GOVT
Call for full employment
(N.Z. Press Association)
GISBORNE, July 21.
The Government was blamed by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr H. Watt) in Gisborne today for the latest increase in unemployment. The latest unemployment figures reinforced what he had said before—that a planned programme of regional development for Gisborne and the East Coast was imperative, said Mr Watts.
“Unemployment is wasteful and degrading. Labour believes in full employment, not in partial employment,” he said.
“With a properly planned economy, all the present registered unemployed plus many thousands more who do not qualify to register could be producing and adding to the wealth of the nation. . “Any government which permits a policy denying employment to fit and able men and women does not deserve to remain the government of the country,” said Mr Watt.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 16
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