COMPLAINT MADE

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 6

COMPLAINT MADE

UNEMPLOYMENT ADMINIBTHAt TION. ■’ N.' - ; {• , ' • CHARGE AGAINST GOVERNMENT. (Per Press Association— Copyright.) ■aw;:" A uckland; July 28. “If the Government had shown as much ingenuity!* and enterprise in detvisincr ways of solving the unemployment problem, by providing reproductive -work at a living wage,. as it lias shown, in devising ways of extracting money jfrom the taxpayer’s, -our ..problems Afauhl have been speedily solved,.” ,said Mr F. J. Kelliher,-" managing director of Dominion Breweries, Ltd. at the annual meeting to-day. “The people have been, contributing the best, pait of! £4,000,000 yearly towards unemployment, and that huge sum is being spehte without a definite plan or ’ policy:w' Heavy taxation, when the ijjevienu© from, it was unsoundly spent, become doubly heavy, and the'position ofhinemployment must thereby be aggravated instead of improved. It seemed fairly obvious that, if the Government persisted in its present policy, the only relief the people could look for must come from overseas and, fortunately, indications were much brighter than they had been for some time.' The British conversion loan’s success, was a sure; sign cf returning; confidence, and a drop, in the Bank of England; rate to 2 per cent. was. an infallable indication of more ’ plentiful money,' which? mennt better : prices for our primiirw'jfl'oductsi , .'