TO PROVIDE WORK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 11

TO PROVIDE WORK.

DESIFE OF GOVERNMENT. WELLINGTON, July 24. An assurance that the Government were doing everything in their power to alleviate the unemployment situation was given b.v the Minister Of Public Works (Hon. It. Semple) in reply to an urgent question by Mr S. G. Smith in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Smith asked the Minister whether lie was yet in a position to indicate what national reproductive works he contemplated putting in hand for the purpose of absorbing the increased number of unemployed in the Taranaki province. Ho added that the large number of able-bodied and willing workers who were compelled, in the absence of full-time jobs, to remain on sustenance in Taranaki, was causing great concern, especially

among the workers themselves. | “Investigations are being made with the object of alleviating the position,” replied the Minister. “The question of finding suitable employment for men, only only in Taranaki but throughout the Dominion, is a difficult one, and it is the intention of the Government that any work undertaken will have some merit and some value for the nation. It has been ex- j tremely difficult in the short time the Government has been in olliee to deal effectively with the unemployment problem, but all that can possibly be ' done to give, relief throughout the i Dominion will be done.” !