UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

AIR P. FRASER IAIPATIENT. WHY NOT THIS SESSION ? (By Telegraph—Special to the Star.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. “There is absolutely no justification for the Government’s action in delaying the introduction of unemployment insurance,” declared Air P. Fraser (Wellington Central) in the House, of Representatives to-day, when introducing his Unemployed Workers’ Bill, a measure on lines similar to Bills previously brought down by this member. Air Fraser added that all sections of . j House were now converted to tlie idea held for years by the Labour Party, that unemployment insurance wag necessary. There was no need to investigate the matter further. An inquiry had been made and tlie results of the investigations had been, placed on record in Hansard. If anyone wished to study tlie subject of unemployment insurance, lie need not go further than the Parliamentary library. The reasons given for the Government’s action in delaying unemployment insurance proposals till next session were trivial. The House has. been told that legislation could not be prepared this session but ' Air Fraser thought that this was absurd, because not for ten years had a session been productive of fewer Bills. There had been sessions when the law draft-man*s staff had produced hundreds of Bills., so, surely the law draftsmen was not oyerworked this session. If he was, the Labour Party was quite prepared to lend tlie Government its two lawyer members (Alessrs Alason and Barnard) who would only be too pleased to help to draft an unemployment insurance Bill. (Laughter). Mr Fraser’s Bill was read a first time without further debate.