Unemployed Problem
Sir, —In your issue of Wednesday I read with amusement a statement by a writer who styles himself “Common Sense." He says that the present Government has done nothing to relieve the unemployment problem, but only increased taxation for public works and that a large number of men are getting sustenance for doing nothing and the farmers are crying out for labour. Hoes he not know that there is a placement office in Gisborne and in every town in New Zealand. Why does he not ask the farmers why they do not go to these offices and demand men. I can tell him that if a man on sustenance is offered a job from the placement officer and declines to take it he is soon pushed off sustenance. I can see that Tory supporters do not know what sort of criticism they can launch against the present Labour Government. I will conclude by quoting from Burns: — “Oh may the sun of reason rise To brighten the midnight gloom.” — Yours, etc., “INDEPENDENT."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 8
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173Unemployed Problem Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 8
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