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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1928, Page 1

Tlie Unemployment Relief Bill contains, as might be expected in a measure of this kind, provisions respecting the “right to work” and provisions for the payment of unemployed at the ruling rates of wages. From a mere glance at these provisions it will be seen that the Bill bristles with controversial proposals. Yet the main principle that is enunciated in it, that a scheme of insurance against unemployment should be inaugurated, is one of which the soundness is hardly disputable. It has been understood for the past few years that the Labour Department has been making investigations with the view to the preparation I 0 f its own scheme of unemployment in- ’ gurance. The time that has elapsed ' since these investigations were begun

should have been long enough to admit of tbe formulation of a scheme, and it is disappointing that none has yet been presented on behalf of the Government. Even if tbe problem of • unemployment should cease within tlie next few months to be very pressing, it will be recurrent, and tbe adoption of some practical scheme for meeting it is certainly desirable, —“Otago DailyTimes,”