UNEMPLOYMENT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO MORE TO RELIEVE IT.

(BY TELEGRAPH—PEEBS ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON, Aug. 15.' , Ihe Actmg-Pnme Minister (Sir >rancis Bell) has made it clear that the Government cannot do more than it is doing to relieve unemployment in, the Dominion. In the course of a telegram to-a local body which had applied tor assistance, Sir Francis Bell said that the Government is already employm R as many men as funds will permit and has strained its finances to the utmost: Lodal authorities must meet the : position by using local funds to find work for local unemployed.