CITIZENSHIP IDEALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 8

CITIZENSHIP IDEALS

NEED ENCOURAGEMENT DUTY OF GOVERNMENT (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.') WELLINGTON, To-day. “There are too many young fellows at a loose end; too many out of jobs,” declared Mr. T. D. Burnett, Temuka, to-day, when dealing with the subject of general depression. “There are too many young fellows growing up without anyone to take an interest in them, and without any ideals of citizenship, and the result is anything but a credit to the country and to our race.” The remedy for this state of things as conceived by Mr. Burnett was for the people to realise that the times through which we had passed were abnormal; while it was the duty of the Government *to give the greatest degree of security on all leases with the object of encouragement of permament improvements which would to a great extent relieve the labour market. It was also the duty of the Government to encourage the flow of private capital into land investments which would rather discourage public bodies going in for lavish improvement schemes that absorbed money that would otherwise go into the improvement of this land.