MEN TO BE GIVEN WORK MUST HAVE BEEN THREE MONTHS IN NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT’S PLANS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
WORKERS TO BE ALLOCATED SOON. Press Association- —Copyright. WELLINGTON, This DaY. The Cabinet Committee is still meeting daily to deal with unemployment, despite the fact that its major problem has now been dealt •with. Sir Joseph Ward states it has bean decided to enforce the situation that the men engaged must have been resident for three months in the Dominion. The object of this wa s obvious, as if some such| safeguard was not applied, there would in all probability be an influx of workers from overseas, with the result that the position would become worse than if the Government had made no attempt to deal with the situation, I The Prime Minister added that it would be possible to allocate the men as soon as the registrations were sufficiently complete. It wasintended to distribute them as far as possible as near to their homes as could be arranged.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 4 October 1929, Page 5
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