SUITABLE OCCUPATIONS.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —One result of the many years of thin times has heen the loading on to the commercial and industrial world of large numbers of folk who have drifted into the unemployable regiments. States have given doles, sustenance and suchlike palliatives in order to keep order in the State, but with the devastating result of demoralising the recipients. Not only are the men and boys affected, but it is reflected in the homes, so that we have women and girls at the breaking point of nerves, and juvenile crime spreading. The upper stratas of society, the more fortunate ones, make bold to say that we are breeding a “race of loafers." Relief work is akin to laziness. There are no lazy people in New Zealand or anywhere else. What we have produced are disinterested people. We must get our unemployed and our young folk interested in some occupation. Here again it is the system. Part of our reconstruction programme must be to find suitable occupations for our surplus man and womanhood. If certain persons will not work, whether by hand or brain, then it is a question for the psychoinedical authorities. —I am, etc., DIOGENES. Frankton, February 19.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19816, 21 February 1936, Page 9
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