FIVE MONTHS’ BREAK
THE STREAM OF IMMIGRANTS PRIME MINISTER’S ASSURANCE. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Feb. 18. A large deputation which waited on the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. J. G. Coates) in regard to unemployment this afternoon urged that the situation throughout the country was serious. It was stated that in Auckland province alone 4000 men were out of work. One speaker said they had no objection to immigrants. Many of the deputation had themselves been immigrants, but it was no time for immigration when tho country was in such & bad way. Mr Coates said that he had made suggestions to the Minister of Labour and Minister of Public Works for bettering the situation, and he hoped to make these public in a few days. “I admit migration has a direct bearing on the number who find employment,” continued Mr Coates. “It has been decided that from May wc will cut out all immigration for four or five months. If it is found then that the economic situation is more hopeful the scheme will be resumed, and if it is no better it will be further withheld.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 6
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187FIVE MONTHS’ BREAK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 6
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