TRANSFER OF UNEMPLOYED
NORTH ISLAND TO SOUTH. INTENTION OF MINISTER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. Tho proposed transference of unemployed men from the North Island to works in the South Island was the subject of a protest by a deputation of South Island members of Parliament,- which waited on tho Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, to-day. The speakers urged that it was not reasonable to transfer outside workers to tho South Island, which already had a serious unemployed problem of its own.
Mr. Ransom said it was necessary to send men from the North Island to the South Island, as there were no railway works adjacent to tho Wellington Province. The construction of two railway works in the North Island had been stopped, and men had to be transferred to other works. The men were going to definite works, not to relief works. " Wo do not want to set one island against tho other," said Mr. Ransom, " but wo are compelled to transfer men where necessary."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 14
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