GOV. SHELTERING UNEMPLOYED
[to the editor.] Sir, —The Government itself is its own greatest enemy. Thousands of farmers throughout New Zealand are now requiring farm workers. I recently advertised in your columns offering attractive wages, but failed to elicit one reply. On the registration card of every unemployed man appears his occupation. Now the Laboui’ Department are sheltering these men (like many misguided people in war time) from their legitimate sphere. The Labour Department through the press have simply to ask farmers what men they require and then recall, for instance, men from their mining subsidy holiday i.e. smoking cigarettes and reading novels etc. The ways of the Government are at times like the constituencies who elect them, really incomprehensible. I am, etc., “FARMER.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19340905.2.75.2
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 12
Word Count
124GOV. SHELTERING UNEMPLOYED Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 12
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in