IMMIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19552, 10 May 1927, Page 8

IMMIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT

SALVATION ARMY EXPRESSES VIEWS , H.Z. UNNECESSARILY CONCERNED [Special to tee 1 Star,’] • AUCKLAND, May 10. Before , the . present immigration scheme of the New Zealand Government was started the Salvation Army had for years been interested in the subject in an Imperial sense." Colonel T. 11. Tudge, international inspector of the Salvation Army’s immigration department, is now on a world tour, and, after having spent two weeks in New, Zealand, will leave for Canada, his native land, by the Aorangi to-night. Unemployment was a subject on which be expressed very decided opinions yesterday. “ New Zealand,” he said, “ like many countries with a small population, is unnecessarily concerned about the unemployment problem, which k serious in every country.” Mr Tudge said he was inclined to suspect it was. accentuated in New Zealand, because the dominion had such a small population that everybody knew everybody else’s business. • What was required was a new attitude that did not forget to take into consideration the right of every man to work The unemployed problem would be more correctly expressed as the problem of the unemployable, and that was not altogether an economic question. ” This is a land of great opportunity,” he concluded. “The people in Auckland are well dressed, happy, and prosperous; bars, picture shows, and shops are better patronised than in any town ol the same size in the world; but in the attitude toward unemployment there is too much gloom, too much misconception, too mnnv mirages, and not enough horse sense.”