UNEMPLOYMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT.

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PROPOSED BY LABOUR

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BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT Received May 23, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 22. Unemployment was again discussed in the House erf Dominions. Mr. Oliver moved the second reading of the Labour Party Bill, entitled “Prevention, of -Unemployment Bill,” providing for the. establishment of a national employment and development board, with a State guarantee of ten millions sterling yearly. The board is to consist of Ministers of the Crown, and to be empowered to make advances to the Dominions and colonial Governments, local and public authorities, to be spent anywhere in the Empire on purposes calculated to provide employment. Mr. Oliver 'said, that great, area,s of land were idle in Britain, anci they could be used to 1 provide much of the meat, butter, and sugar now imported. British craftsmen were going to America, although there was ample opportunity for them in the colonies if the colonies were developed, as the report of the East, African Commission showed that they could be developed. Mr. Lloyd George declared that nothing could be done under the Bill which Cabinet wais unable to do, without, it.— Reuter.