ROOT OF UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 3

ROOT OF UNEMPLOYMENT

BUSINESS MEN'S SCHEME | IBprcial io the 1 Star.*3 CHRISTCHURCH, April 13. The tree planting that will be don® throughout Canterbury by the St».lo Forest Service during the next _ few months will do much to relieve winter unemployment, for which Christchurch is already preparing. Altogether them will be nearly 200 men employed by tlm department ‘at Irwcll, Balmoral, ami Ila inner. Well over 5,000 acres of new: forest will be planted, and several million trees will be used. A movement is on foot among, tha business men nf tlic city, it is stated, to find a permanent .solution for nn-; employment by tackling its root muses , among boys and girls who leave school-fa with no knowledge of the work fori which they are titled. The will supplement the dillerent schemes of vocational guidance already evolved. | Mr A. A. M-Lachlan, who is said to b«>| at the head of the scheme, declined toj .•ive :mv details, though he did nrm.jS den v its existence. “ When I lie details J are worked mil w* may give the new| in a vor and <-nn nci I tors some nuts lo.‘i| crack.” he said. -‘but in the _ mean-’jj time it would be a pity to prejudice the* | .sympathy and co-nperalinn of the pnh-| lie by raising it on the eve of tho | municipal election campaign.” _ | Ivnple representing all parties uni ) said to be interested in tin- scheme Tliev will form a society which will have as its aim the prevention of unemployment by a well-organised schema of vocational guidance. ,