Saving Them From Their Own Folly
BUILDING SUBSIDIES TO WEALTHY FIRMS Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. The Minister of Employment was approached to-day by a deputation of unemployed who complained about the expenditure of the Unemployment Board’s funds on builuing subsidies to wealthy firms. The deputy-chairman, Air. Walter Bromley, replied that as long as the board could spend £1 to get £lO worth of employment for workless men it would continue its policy despite criticism, and in the conviction that it was saving the unemployed from the consequences of their own folly. ITe made no apology for the Prudential Assurance and r *--ithland Frozen Aleat subsidies because ho knew no apology was necessary.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 196, 21 August 1935, Page 5
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114Saving Them From Their Own Folly Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 196, 21 August 1935, Page 5
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