LACK OF WORK

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 21 March 1930, Page 3

LACK OF WORK

AIITIGATING TROUBLE NEW GOVERNOR’S ADVICE (Per Press Association). Wellington, March 19. That increased consumption of New Zealand-made goods would mitigate unemployment in the Dominion was a suggestion advanced by the new Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) I yesterday wlffin replying to tile Government’s welcome at the swaringin ceremony. “Unemployment, that incubus of practically every country, unfortunatetly. I learn, exists amongst you,” said Hi s Excellency. “I j>ray it may not be of long duration. It is a delicate problem: that not merely taxes the highest ingenuity of states mansliip hut calls for the assistance of all patriotic people in seeking a solution. ’Without presuming us a newcomer to offer advice, am I wrong in suggesting that it cun be at least mitigated by the increased consumption of the products of your own country, by 1110 application of scientific knowledge and true economicvalue to your industrial practice, by sympathetic co-operation between employer and employed, and by the credit which flows from unflagging integrity, in all business undertakings which Now Zealand enjoys?”