UNEMPLOYMENT
THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSIBILITY. PREMIER’S REPLY TO AUCKLAND. Wellington, June 11. Commenting on the Auckland attitude towards the unemployed problem, that unemployment relief should be a charge on the national exchequer, the Prime Minister to-day said: “This question of unemployment is one which concerns us all, and to adopt the attitude that the Government alone is concerned and that there is no responsibility on local bodies or private individuals is, to my mind, not the right spirit in which to meet the difficulties of men who, through no fault of their own, owing to slackness of business, have to be helped. They have some claim on those who in good times have received the benefit from large city populations. It would be deplorable if under the pressure of this problem we, as New Zealanders, drifted away from our characteristic attitude of self-reliance and dropped our responsibilities wholly on th© public exchequer.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 148, 12 June 1930, Page 7
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