Work for Everyone

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 7

Work for Everyone

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MINISTER'S PROMISE "Back of Problem is Well Broken" SKILLED MEN NEEDED

(By Telegraoh-

AUCIpjAND, Last Night. "Quite deflnitely the unemployment problem in New Zealand has its back well broken, and, if we can get sufficient skilled men, ifc will not Be long before we have employment for every man capable of aecepting it,/' said the acting-Minister of Labour and Employment, the Hon. P, C. Webb, to-night, The Minister said that the scheme of training young men from 18 to 25 years of age who had missed their opportunity during the depression was well under way, and a considerable number of apprenticeships had already been registered. The Government would spare no efforts to have these young men trained. "We are badly in need of more car* penters and builders, ' ' the Minister added. "In faet, the work wa have planned out will require at least 10,000 additional tradesmen. Wa have dozens of big publie buildings ready to be built if labour can be found, There are contracts let for the building of houses in over 40 towns, and in many instances the shortage of skilled men has impeded operations. "Unless we can get skilled tradesmen, it will be very much more difficult to solve the unemployment prob" lem," said the Minister. "Given sufficient skilled artisans, the unemployment problem will soon disappear and all that will be left to the unemployed army will be those who are unemployable. ' ' The Minister added that in many parts of New Zealand at the present time there were no unemployed who were able to work. It was only in the cities and big towns that the problem was still in evidence3