FINDING NEW WORK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 211, 19 August 1933, Page 8

FINDING NEW WORK

FOR HASTINGS UNEMPLOYED FUNCTION OF MAYOR'S COMMITTEE. DECENTRALISATION WANTED. At the request of His Worship the Mayor a sub-committee has been set up to initiate and consider plans for th* Kmi-pemanent and permanent employment of labour to the intent that the unemployed shall lie taken away from many of the present works which are to a large degree unproductive, uninteresting, and soul destroying. The duties of the committee are extremely onerous and involve a large amount of time and thought. Many schemes are already under consideration, e.g.. tree planting on a community basis, housing, small farms, canning industry, and citrus fruitgrowing. The difficulties, mainly financial, are considerable. Nevertheless, a large number of able business, fanning, and professional men have been coopted and probably at no time heretofore has such an amount of interested ability and co-related and constructive thought been brought to bear upon these subjects in Hastings. Owing to the immensity of the task—one which is exercising the best brain power throughout the world —immediate results of any magnitude are scarcely to be expected. The Unemployment Board is extremely pleased with the fact of the constitution of the committee and with ite quality, and has offered the fullest measure of co-operation within the

scope of its policy. The committee is fully seized of the beneficial results of the success of its efforts and is bending every energy towards its attainment. Among its other activities it is considering the whole policy 6f the Government in unemployment matters in the hope of improving the administration particularly iu the direction of » decentralisation. The committee wishes it to be distinctly understood that this matter is one for the com-ent rated thought of every citizen of the district, and it solicits helpful suggestions of every kind from all who have the solution of this momentous problem at heart.