DEMAND FOR WORK.
CRITICISMS IN NAPIER. NAPIER, May 21. A large meeting of unemployed this morning criticised the Government relief schemes. Instances were given of married men going on to relief jobs and coming off in debt. The Mayor (Mr. J. Vigor Brown) expressed the opinion that relief of unemployment was a problem for the Government. Speakers instanced the influx of immigrants as one of the main causes of unemployment, and it was stated that no scrubcutting, fencing and like work was now offering on farms. Modern machinery was obviating the necessity for wharf labourers for handling coal, oil, and other products. The meeting expressed the opinion that the Government should open up fresh avenues of employment in place of those which were disappearing.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 22 May 1928, Page 2
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