HUMAN PROBLEMS OF MINISTER OF LABOUR
One Presented at Blenheim
BELIEF SOUGHT FOBHUNDRED UNEMPLOYED
DISTRICT PUBLIC WORKS. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Last Night. Tile Hon. W. A. Vciteh, who returned from Kaikoura this evening, whither he had accompanied the Prime Minister, was accorded a civic reception in the presence of a representative gathering of citizens. In responding, the Minister said he liked the portfolio of Labour, because it meant dealing with human nature. Its problems were human problems. In comparison with other parts of the world, New Zealand knew no industrial troubles and he appealed to all classes to co-opcrato in maintaining these conditions of industrial peape. Mr Yeitch received a deputation which stated that 95 unemployed registered at Blenheim in the past few days and requested the government to expedite public works, such as t.ho £-15,000 deviation scheme for the main south highway between Blenheim and Seddon and the construction of the South main trunk. They desired preference for local unemployed until the men now out of work had been absorbed. The Minister undertook to do his utmost in the mat tea
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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183HUMAN PROBLEMS OF MINISTER OF LABOUR Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6920, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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