UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

THE GAMP PROBLEM

NATIONAL AID ORGANISATION REQUIRED PLIGHT OF YOUTH WITHOUT AVOCATION [Special'to the ‘Stab.’] AUCKLAND, April 30. Dr Kenneth MacCormick, when asked to give his personal views of the unemployment camps which he visited on Wednesday in company with Archbishop Avcrill and others, said: “What is \ needed- is an organisation similar to those set up during war time that will take the question up immediately and set machinery in motion from end to end of New Zealand for supplying clothes, boots, blankets, and comforts to men who are forced into camps through the stern necessity of the times.” “ One of the difficulties of camp life,” said Archbishop Avcrill. “is the inability of the men to take other work. They are away from their homes, and even if a job becomes vacant they are unable to apply for the work, and that naturally is exorcising the minds of many men. The greatest difficulty facing the community is the position of young people who on leaving school have no work to go to. No provision at all is being made for these youths. It appears to me that it is an urgent necessity to create some scheme to absorb young men from sixteen to twenty years of age. If it is a case of sending them to camp it will be necessary to exercise the strictest discipline, because they arc quite undisciplined at the present time, and when a boy has left school for a year or two and has nothing to occupy him there is always the inclination for him to run riot. I am sure this state of affairs, if not checked, will lead to serious trouble in the future. Everybody realises that it is necessary to do something for men out of work, but they are forgetting the boys who are growing up without avocations.”

NOT TO DISBAND

[Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH May 2. After keen discussion at the meeting to-day the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee decided not to disband, and a motion to that effect was withdrawn. This followed a dispute with the Unemployment Board over the conduct of business. The chairman (Mr K. H. Andrews) said that when he had referred to the board as a one-man hoard he had in mind Mr W. Bromley, the Labour member of tho hoard.

MR ROCHE'S DEMONSTRATIONS

Mr T. Roche will give another demonstration at tho mayor’s relief depot at 10 o’clock to-morrow morning, of half a dozen methods to get gold.

GROUPS TO REPORT

Groups will report for work to-mor-row, as under;— Defence Department.—B a.m., at Central Battery, St. Kilda: The following men of group 33; —Aitkenhead, Andrews, E. J. Andrews, L. W. Churchill, Foam, Fulcher, Harris, G. S. Harris, L. J. Harwood, Hodges, and Lawson,