UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.
VIEWS OF EMPLOYERS. ' STRONG DISAPPROVAL EXPRESSED. (Special to Daily Times ) <• ' AUCKLAND, September 26.. . Strong disapproval of the intspAuction of unemployed insurance "to 'New Zealand, was expressed by speakers at the annual meeting of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association. It was urged that the association ■ should protest against' the ' Government adopting any legislation hurriedly. Mr . T S. Dawes (vice-president) said there were indications that the Government would rush through legislation this session to set up a system of unemployment insurance. The question • should be considered carefully and no hurried steps should be taken. “ It would be a most dangerous thing to introduce unemployment insurance,” said the president (Mr A. Spencer). “It would cripple industry and would result in. a great setback. Industrial insurance should be the last resort in' a young country Ike New. Zealand.
;Mr A. -G. Lunn said that instead of paying men to do nothing they could he, sent to work on areas of land awaiting cultivation. Mr G. Finn said, he did not think a real effort had been made to solve’thfe unemployment problem. “Unemployment insurance has ruined Great Britain,” said Mr Finn. “Ifit is Introduced to New Zealand the sooner we get out of the country the Letter.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20833, 27 September 1929, Page 10
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