UNEMPLOYMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17174, 3 February 1930, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

POSITION SERIOUS government criticised (Special to the Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. i' “I /am becoming absolutely disquieted ■ * 'with the whole outfit. I do not think . the Ministers of the Government are V-. ‘ taking their jobs as seriously as they v ' The unemployment, situation : is veyy much more serious, not only in ? Christchurch, but in various parts of New/, Zealand, than they pretend to realise.” So said Mr. Armstrong, M.P., .. to a reporter to-day. y , i “So far as I can . gather, as fast as they put men on to one job they P ut them off another,” said Mr. Armstrong, and according to the latest statistics there are only about 1000 more men on public works jobs now than there were when the Government took office If' •: months ago. If they cannot cope with the situation now what are they going to do in the winter months. If there is one department that wants a good shaking up it is the Public Wo.rks iJepartment. It seems to have neither method nor Organisation.” REUEF WORK ROAD FORMATION < ■ . (Special to the Herald.) WELLINGTON, this day. , Cabinet has approved a grant to- . war'd# the coat of formation''of a road giVixlg access to Ardkeen settlement. Th© continuation of the relief work on ; the Ruatahuna-Waikaremoana road ■Ha# teen authorised, and a subsidy on a£2 to £1 basis will be paid the Hawke ’a Bay 'County for metalling the Wafkari inland road. An improvcjheht of tie approach road to Tarawera irom Wairoa by relief labor also has been approved. A grant to the Matakaoa County for formation works on the Hicks-Bay to the county boundary road has been passed.