CHEERLESS PROSPECT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17029, 14 August 1929, Page 7

CHEERLESS PROSPECT

UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS (FarKamentary Reporter.* WELLINGTON, this day. Much concern was expressed by • Captain H. M. Rushworth, Bay of Islands, in the House last night when he touched on the problem of unemployment, regarded not from the standpoint of dealing with those nt present out of work, but rather that of providing avenues of employment for boys and girls leaving school. "What to do for our boys and girls was, he declared, the big problem. No one in the House knew better than he what a really unemployable person was like. He had studied the question in London, and had seen genuine unemployable* who reminded one of creatures out of Dante's Inferno. They were a travesty on human beings. Mr. B. Somple: Made by the State. Captain Rushworth gaid a generation of unemployed meant the production of nnemployables. "When a lad leaving •ehool had been two or three years without work he beeame unemployable, and the prospect was not encouraging. Hope sprang eternal in the human breast, however, and he was still hoping. He. did want to see this problem taeklod in a serious way. He was afraid the Government's cup was filling up, and unless it tackled the main problem in a serious and determined manncr'lt would have a very ahort life.