UNEMPLOYMENT.
During what are usually considered the best months in the year, employment in New Zealand has been much scarcer than has been recorded for at least forty years. We are going through a period comparable to that of the early ’9o’s, only, perhaps/ on a bigger scale. Much of the unemployment is the result of the misguided pol-
icy of flooding the Dominion with immigrants from the United Kingdom for whom there was no work. If the object of such a policy were to bring wages down to the rate that ruled forty years ago, it has failed, and the taxation that has been found necessary in order to balance the national budget has hit many firms and individuals very hard. During the coming winter there will probably be experienced one of the worst periods ever recorded in connection with unemployment in New Zealand. Masterton, no doubt, will suffer like other towns, but, unlike many other centres, the Mayor and Borough Council have handled the unemployed situation well and alleviated hardship as much as was within their power.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 April 1931, Page 4
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