HARD TIMES AHEAD
FACING THE POSITION. STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF LABOUR. (Per United Press Association.) Hamilton, August 22. . Greater difficulties Still to be faced, coupled with the hope that despite these it would be possible to provide every unemployed man with at least work and food, were foreshadowed in a statement made by the Minister of Labour (the Hon. S. G. Smith) in reply" to a deputation of the unemployed at Hamilton to-day. The Minister added that the restrictions placed on single men, on those with money saved, on widowers and others were not imposed for the purpose of creating friction. They were brought about by tho plain fact that the Government had not money. The turn political events took yesterday, added the Minister, was an indication to the New Zealand people that the financial position had to be faced. Nobody liked a wages restriction or an army of unemployed but the facts had to be faced. _ “Without desiring to be pessimistic,” proceded the Minister, “it is possible that we are going to face worse times during the next few months than ever before.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21480, 24 August 1931, Page 7
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184HARD TIMES AHEAD Southland Times, Issue 21480, 24 August 1931, Page 7
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