Unemployed
Sir, —On reading of the National Party’s professed concern for the "decent” unemployed, one cannot but remark on the apparent change in the composition of the poor in New Zealand over recent years. In 1979, according to Mr George Gair, then Minister of Social Welfare, New Zealand’s poor were "disadvantaged not so much by a lack of material things as by a poverty of intellect, of character, or of will, or ... the worse for their i association with drink, gambling, or drugs, or ... the (casualties of broken homes” (“The Press,” June 21, 1979):'* How times change and the poor, seemingly, with them. — Yours, etc., JOHN HUGHES. January 1987.
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Press, 3 February 1987, Page 16
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