Laws on skills projects ‘cruel’
PA Wellington Regulations that terminate Government work
skills programmes after six months are cruel, says the president of the New Zealand Maori Council, Sir Graham Latimer. His comments came during a visit to Wellington’s Tapu Te Ranga work trust and marae in Island Bay where many members of the Wellington Mongrel Mob and others work under a Labour Department work skills programme. The visit was part of a fact-finding trip by Sir Graham.
Work trusts were the “nerve centres of where these young people are
gathering to find confidence in themselves,” Sir Graham said. Through them Maori youth found satisfaction and had a chance to learn skills. People who ended the work, and the pay, because of regulations “don’t know the damage they are doing to these young people ... it is totally cruel,” Sir Graham said. If there were alternative jobs for those people after the programme ended they would be happy to go, he said. “If the Government cannot provide permanent employment it should not implement a law that demoralises,” Sir Graham said.
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Press, 5 July 1983, Page 15
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