OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932. N.Z.'S DOUBTFUL DISTINCTION

Opunake Times, 26 August 1932, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932. N.Z.'S DOUBTFUL DISTINCTION

With a population of 1,500,000, New Zealand was spending £5,000,000 annually on unemployment relief, said M/r, S. G. Smith, M.P., speaking in Wanganui on Wednesday. The estinpite for the revenue of the Unemployment Board has been set down at £3,500,000 be said, and it bad been estimated that the amount spent annually by all other social organisations, local bodies, semilocal bodies, and others dealing with the problem would reach £1,500,000. A survey of what, was being done in other countries would probably show that, while not all was being done in New Zealand which could be desired, or aimed at, and although there might be privation and poverty, no other country in the • whole world was doing so much for its unemployed as New Zealand. .