UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM
MINISTER’S STATEMENT 1 Per Iran AMocTatija. | AUCKLAND, April 29. “We have a large residue of men who, as the result of the bad times, have never been strong and have never done hard skilled work or labour. It the employers will not take these men, we, the Government, must create some work that will absorb them.” This statement was made by the Hon. W. E. Parry in receiving a deputation from the Manurewa Town Board seeking endorsement of an application to the Labour Department for a reduction, if necessary, in the number of unemployed men that had to be engaged weekly in connection with the board's water supply scheme in order to obtain the subsidy. The Minister assured the deputation that he would give every possible help, and would discuss the mrtter with the Minister ot Labour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 30 April 1937, Page 6
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