UNEMPLOYMENT PARADOX
■The' unemployment problem directly affects at least one person in seven in Now Plymouth's population of 18.500. There are COO married unemployed registered, having at a conservative estimate 2000 dependants. Side by side ■with this state of affairs is the position of many Tarnnaki farmers^ unable to secure labour. Scores of farm" positions arc advertised weekly aud a good percentage arc not filled, says the "Taranaki Daily News." There was still a good demand for farm labour, said Mr. H. E. Blydo, president of tho North Taranaki provincial executive of tho Farmers' Uuiou, when interviewed. The Inglewood district was experiencing a particular shortage in this regard. He instanced the number of vacant positions advertised compared with those sought. Most farmers employing men would be doing so this month, Mr. Blyde said, and the position as far as shortage'was concerned would not be more acute after the end of August. Farmers generally filled their requirements, if labour "wore available, by then. There J would be no bigger demand in October or early September than during the present month. It was pointed out elsewhere that a considerable proportion of the unemployed in the towns were notlit for farm labour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 10
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199UNEMPLOYMENT PARADOX Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 10
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