SUSTENANCE PROBLEM
A MINISTER’S DISLIKE. RI'ATORIA, Last night. Criti ’ of the system of sustenance was levelled by the Hon. P. C. Welib, : v Minister of Labor, at Button.- i•-night, when he said the Govern,!. nl hoped that, by its efforts to put unemployed hack into productive iik. tliis system would he ended I : iie not far distant future. The 111 in said he had a distinct dislike !■ --.istcnnnce. It was a de-morali-i -ystem and had a psychological - fax. The people who paid the in- into the funds eventually found )i -in-elves thinking they were paving - keep men who would not work. With hesitation, he asserted that tie were as good men out of work a II re were in work. The Govern: n would not entertain anything fiv men who could work but would i -ork.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 23 July 1937, Page 3
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