PESSIMISTIC MINISTER
FUTURE OUTLOOK. Hamilton, Aug. 22. Greater difficulties still to be faced coupled with the hope that despite these it would be possible to provide every unemployed man with at least work and food, was foreshadowed in a statement made by the Minister of Labour, the Hou. S. G. Smith, in reply to a deputation of unemployed at Hamilton to-day. The Minister added that the restrictions placed on single men, on those with money saved, on widowers and others, were not imposed for the purpose of creating friction, they were bi ought about by the plain fact that the Government had not the money. The turn in political events that took place yesterday, added the Minister, was an indication to New Zealand people that the financial position had to be faced. Nobody liked the wages restriction or the army of unemployed, but the facts had to be faced. “ Without desiring to be pessimistic,” proceeded the Minister, “it is possible that we are going to face worse times during the next few months than ever before. ’ ’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 214, 24 August 1931, Page 6
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