UNEMPLOYMENT IN WELLINGTON AND ITS CAUSE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 34, 3 November 1928, Page 25

UNEMPLOYMENT IN WELLINGTON AND ITS CAUSE

Sir, —Last week I advertised in the Wairarapa for a job for a young man of twenty on a dairy farm, and in three days he had ten different jobs offered to hint. Still. I see by your paper that you have hundreds of unemployed in Wellington, and that your city councillors propose borrowing £lO,OOO, to which would be added the Government subsidy, so that they would have £20,000 to farm the unI employed in beautifying the city and circulate £20,000 among the business people of Wellington. Mr. P. Fraser, speaking on unemployment, says that before English boys are asked to come out here to learn farming New Zealand boys should be given the opportunity to do so. I would like to know how many lads of 16 or 17 years of age just left school Mr. Fraser could find in Wellington who would be willing to go on a dairy farm, or whose parents would advise them to do so. Who has caused this deplorable state of things? It is caused by the persons who were instrumental in getting laws passed [ favouring the town worker; raising the overhead charges to the farmer; thereby making farming a sweated industry so that the farmers cannot get even their own sons to stop on the land.—l am. etc., FARMER. Masterton, October 30.