PUBLIC WORKS POLICY
Sir, —Your correspondent: "Shove!" siiys: "Whatever else Boh Seniple has or has not done, he has at least brought a sense of independence to some 20,0(10 men on Public Works jobs." If the other 20,000 men interpret the word "independence" as does your correspondent, it is a sorry state to which our socialistic Government is bringing this country of opportunity. To my way of thinking these jobs are merely charity once removed, or hardly that, and cliarity, when 1 went to school, had no "sense of independence" attached to it. With prosperity at a high level, I myself, along with most other New Zealanders, want to know why the majority of these 20.000 men have not been absorbed into the ordinary industries of the country, thus ceasing to he an irksome drain oil their fellow-taxpayers and allowing the Labour Government to keep one at least of their pre-election promises, namelv, to do away with the unemployment 'tax. Stoheman.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23052, 1 June 1938, Page 17
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161PUBLIC WORKS POLICY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23052, 1 June 1938, Page 17
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