UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 16

UNEMPLOYMENT.

TO THE miTOR Or THE PRESS. Sir,—Will you please allow me a little spaco in your valuable paper to discuss unemployment? The Government will be collecting a huge sum of money, by. way of tlie 30s tax on the male population. I should like to suggest they start on the Waimakariri electric scheme, make Christchurch secure for po >ver, and send the "\vutcr down by races, etc., to the Government plantations at Eyrcton, thereby saving Christchurch and Ivaiapoi from the danger of flood. This scheme I consider will be self-supporting and use up a lot of the unemployment. Then, now that the wool season is here, and the prices are bound to be low, why not .-.-our all or a lot of our own wool here? Wool must be washed briore it is used. Why not turn the woo! industry into a secondary one? It inav not be of much benefit to the faring, but if the farmer can get just a little out ot .it, and the unemployment is used up what more do we want? T quite understand : there will be 'advantages and disadvantages in the matter, but it in worth considering. . Of course, the question of finance will crpp up. . 1 'suggest .valuing the wool as usual,- then advance to t.be grower, say, • tQ~pc^-wnt^until :Wopl_isf gcoured. There' will be very little if any cash"'wanted, as the most of tlio*Jlnanec -would be mi paper.—Yours, —• . . CIJK'AP MO'XEY, Oxford, November 25th, 1930.-