GORSE-CUTTING FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 188, 7 May 1929, Page 13

GORSE-CUTTING FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

Discussing the unemployment problem Suggestio contends that useful work which would absorb many of the workless would be their employment in combating the gorse nuisance so much in evidence in Wellington and which has led to the deterioration of much valuable public and private property. “If,” says the correspondent, “the City Council were to undertake merely-the cutting back of young gorse in the parks they would provide employment for a considerable number of men. If they were to go further and cut out all the gorse, roots and shoots, the number could be increased immensely for the price of the few necessary tools. If they were to treat the city as a whole in the same way very little of the unemployment problem would be left. There is enough gorse in and around Wellington to give permanent employment to thousands if the need arose. This gorse is spreading rapidly, and rendering useless land which cannot be used for building purposes. Gorse and broom are turning the hills into a dense mass of scrub.”