THE UNEMPLOYMENT ACT.
Sir.—ln the. JTj:rai.d one day last week appeared a digest of the provisions of tho Unemployment Act (which is surely as deplorable a measure as any yet passed by a New Zealand Parliament). It is therein stated: "It will be an offence to employ an unregistered person or one whose payment of the levy is in arrears. The penalty is a fine of £20." This provision in itself is likely to conduce to unemployment. How, for instance, is a farmer," when engaging casual labour, say, for harvesting, to know for certain that the hands he puts on are registered or have paid the levy? If documentary proof is not forthcoming, and has merely the men's wOrd for it, ho will be incurring considerable risk, will lie not, of that " fine of £20"? Rather will many farmers be inclined, I should say, to confine their operations to such as can be carried out without fear of breaking this, the latest Jaw of the land. T'.W-G.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 16
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