THE UNEMPLOYED
PREMIER’S PROMISE. (Per Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WELLINGTON, April 5. A deputation from the Trades and Labour Council and the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, introduced by the header of the Labour Party (Mr H. E. Holland), waited on the Prime Ministcr to-day, in connection with unemployment. Mr J. Thorn, President of the New Zealand Labour Party, was the chief speaker, and be urged that it was the duty of the Prime Minister to solve the unemployment problem. In Wellington alone, lie said, there were 500 registered unemployed. He admitted that the Government had put additional men on to relief work, hut he urged the Government to go much further. The Prime Minister, Sir ."Joseph Ward, in reply, said that he had been doing all that was possible, and ho soon would ho introducing a scheme winch would have the effect of giving work to numbers more of the unemployed. Sir Joseph Ward added that, he had hid it. down as a principle that in order to settle the problem of the unemployed, there must be an advanced system of land settlement. kkmw* "■■■ a
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1929, Page 5
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187THE UNEMPLOYED Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1929, Page 5
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