SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1931, Page 8

SOUTH TARANAKI NEWS

SOUTH TARANAKI UNEMPLOYMENT APPEAL MADE TO FARMERS. . While he realised the seriousness to New Zealand’ of the Hawke’s Bay earthquake,' Mr. J. E. Campbell, secretary to the South Taranaki Relief Committee, reminded his hearers that tney were apt to ■ forget their own urgent .unemployment problem, when addressing the South. Taranaki Provincial Exr ecutive of the Farmers’ Union at Hawera yesterday. “I want you to make your fellow farmers conversant with the situation and to appeal to them, for help,” said Mr. Campbell. The latest figures showed that the number of registrations in. Hawera to date was 171. , These people had 412 dependents. A total of 1169 days had been worked by 129 men at a cost to the Government of about, £4OO. .As single men had to give way to married men, their case was pitiable, for they had to be fed. . .

.Mr. Campbell wished to correct the impression that: many men who were looking for work were praying; that they i would not find it. Practically every one who was registered at ■Hawera. he knew to be genuinely seeking employment. He knew of two excounty employees, who had both held their positions for. 20 years, and he argued that tlie fact that they had been kept on for such a long period showed that they- were good workers and were anxious to be in jobs again. Mr. Campbell urged the meeting and, farmers generally to think not only of the unemployed man himself but also of his wife and children. A number of questions were asked and answered,’ after which the' president (Mr. E. J. Betts) assured Mr. Campbell that all would do their best. The meeting emphatically favoured reproductive work whenever possible.