UNEMPLOYMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT

SIR JAMES ALLEN’S VIEWS. Observing that- unless the Dominions could really absorb the people sent to them, immigration was not a success. Sir James Allen, who was the speaker at tin- New Zealand Club luncheon, said be did not want it to go out that- the unemployment problem was anything more than a passing phase in our lives. "T come back to New Zealand.’’ he said, “to find a certain amount of unemployment in ibis young country. 1 remember communicating with the late Mr. Massey in 1923 in regard to migration. .Arrangements were made for you /to absorb 10.000 people a year. I find, upon my return, that there is sonic difficulty in absorbing these people. I don’t i»no\v enough about conditions Lu.m-.t- to diagnose exactly the reason for it. One knows that there was overcrowding last year, and that your exports were not what they ought to have been. It is unfortunate that last ye.n your exports did not amount-_to ,the value of the imports. Perhaps that may be one of the reasons for it. “1 hope.’’ continued Sir James Allen, “that the papers will not lead people to think that I ain talking of this temporary unemployment ns anything more than a phase in our life. 1 don't belioye it will last It is essential thru rlio=e who are sent out from the Old Country should he absorbed T doubt, very much whether the British people realise that the question is not an easy one. It requires careful thought.”