PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
LAND SETTLEMENT THE REMEDY INTENSIVE FARMING- ADVOCATED. - (Pbr United Press Association.) FEILDING, April 26. Speaking at the opening of the Young Farmers’ Club show, the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J, G. Cobbe), in congratulating the promoters om the encouraging interest in agriculture, said that for the last year ended in March our exports totalled £57,154.343. of which - £53,417,328 came off the land. Recently he had. visited some of' the principal factories in the Dominion, In complimenting the manufacturers on the excellence of their products he pointed out that their market was only a local one. - They must sell their manufactures within New Zealand, and therefore- their progress , and success .depended on the prosperity of the farmers, .The most troublesome, problem ' to-day was unemployment.- -Relief work was only a temporary expedient. - The i eal remedy was to be reached through the avenue of land settlement, and intensive faming of small areas. Such' a remedy required careful consideration before its adoption. Those .who encouraged young people to take a real interest in farming were doing a- valuable work, and ' uere helping to solve the unemployment problem. . ' ' . ; ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 19
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189PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20702, 27 April 1929, Page 19
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