MODERN METHODS AND WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 6

MODERN METHODS AND WORK

The bearing of this mechanical age on the present unemployment is the subject of a letter by "Inventor," who suggests "why not ask the inventor and mechanical expert what they can do to find-employ-ment?" Tho writer is a Dominion inventor Who holds the recommendation of the English Board, a resident of New Zealand for over 60 years, with a full knowledge of its resources. He suggests the use of mechanical devices on the West Coast instead of the old-faßhioned method of prospecting, as a means of finding employment, the old hand system being condemned. Mechanical shovels, steam or petrol driven, elevators, conveyors, and other details should be utilised before "Inventor" will believe that the spectacle of a large number of unemployed and business men who are standing still on account of depression, is warranted. "Get the advice of the Dominion's young Edisons and Fords what to use and what to do." The correspondent advises finding the unemployment money and -work to try the West Coast with its deposits of gold, and the poor quality of sand-bearing gold, by means of up-to-date appliances. "Inventor" also touches upon the wealth of fish in the Sounds, and remarks that if he had his way the Tutanekei would not be in Cook Strait, or the Janie Seddon tied up at the wharf, but useful work in this direction would be found for youths and elderly men.,