UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20080, 18 October 1928, Page 14

UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSES.

inquiry by government.

PERSONNEL OF COMMITTEE.

EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES

WIDE SURVEY OF PROBLEM

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The personnel of tho special committee which the Government has appointed to investigate the problem of unemployment in the Dominion was announced by. the Prime Minister. Mr. Coates. in his speech hero this evening.

Tho committee will comprise Messis. W .D. Hunt and T 0. Bishop, representing the employers; Messrs. J. Roberts and 0. Mcßrino, representing the employees. and Messrs. Malcolm Frascr. Government Statistician, and H. I), Ihomson, Under-Secretary for Immigration, representing tho Government.

Mr Coates justified the Government's efforts to relieve unemployment, quoting figures to show that New Zealand was better off in this respect than most other countries. He said it had been advocated that a complete safeguard against unemployment could bo given by a scheme of insurance. Tho Government would ascertain whether som • system of insurance would lie practicable, but many economists feared that such a method of protection might be mote a palliative than a panacea. The Government, was making thorough inquiry into the working of such schemes in other parts of the world, and would take any action which wculd bo justified by such investigation. At his request tho Government Statistician had been collecting and collating statistics in regard to the classes of men registered at the labour bureaux throughout the Dominion. This information would be submitted to tho special committee, which would make a thorough investigation of the problem of unemployment, lie felt confident (he committee would be able to make helpful recommendations to clear the way for the best possible use of the country's available manpower and to set out line* for the satisfactory absorption of suitable immigrants when factors again became favourable for attracting tho right, types of people to New Zealand.