Job advertisements ‘non-political’
Parliamentary .reporter Full-page ’advertisements' appealing to employers to provide jobs for young people are genuine non-poli-tical attempts to encourage , employment, according ’• to’ the Minister of Labour. (Mr Bolger).' ’ In an address in the Rangitikei electorate on Monday evening, he replied to. remarks made by the member of Parliament for West Coast, Mr T. K. Burke (Lab.) who had said that the advertisements in Auckland and Christchurch newspapers were a "gross misuse” of public money and blatant electioneering. Mr Bolger said that the Labour Department about
this time every year put in newspapers a series of advertisements aimed at employers, school-leavers, and young people who would soon be looking for jobs. He said, “These advertise-' ments have nothing to do with the executive arm of the Government but give information about employment opportunities and the Government’s job-creation and training schemes because November through to January are the months when most employers do their recruiting.” The Labour Party was fomenting unrest about employment in the hope that it would enhance the party’s chances at the polls.
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