Immigration v. Unemployed
STILL HUPEFUL.
Sir, — The Hon. Member fbr Napier has for some time past been talking and writing , about the shortage of the population in this fair country. His solution to this problem is immigration. Maybe' it is a good idea. Does he propose to take immigrants into the back country and turn them loose so that the empty places can be filled? Perhaps Mr Barnard has overlooked the fact that there are some thouEands of unemployed in this country. Or then again they may hav© become common and so unnoticeable to a man in Mr Barnard' s position. I will admit the Go-vernment has done quite a lot for the unemployed, but ihe systein is wro-^. Men register for Work, and the work is supposed to be balloted for. J There are men who have worked in the freezing-works all the season and who have earned big money. A'gain there are men with families who have been on the unemployed for years and whose homes 'are bare. Why should these. men not get first preference on this work ? But instead, there are -men coming from good jobs and getting this work while the starving man can grin and bear it. This is not talk, but facts; the system is bad. Still, according to Mr Barnard, we want immigration. — Yours, etc.,
Hastings, July 30, 19337.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 3
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