UNEMPLOYMENT.
ONE CAUSE. The large increase in the quantity of bulk oil, and the decline in the tonnage of coal handled at Wellington during the six months ended March 3ist, cu( compared with the corresponding period of last year, were assigned by Air C. 11. Chapman at the meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board last night as one of the causes of unemployment in Wellington. The chairman (Air J. G. Col/be) said that a good deal of petrol was included) in the tonnage of bulk oil handled at Wellington. The position was unfortunate from the labour point of view, but it was inevitable. He hoped to see more people settled on the land. That was the direction in which the leaders of labour ought to work. They should co-operate with the Government in the settlement of the unemployed on blocks of land.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 May 1928, Page 4
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