WORK FOR SINGLE MEN.
MINISTER’S HOPES. FARM DEVELOPMENT SCHEME. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Aug. 10. Having completed his task ol providing rotational full-time employment for 7000 married men throughout tho Dominion, the Minister of Labour (Hon. P. C. Webb) is now giving serious attention to the problem of finding suitable jobs for single men registered as unemployed. The Minister said to-day that he hoped very shortly that there would be a considerable number of men employed on farm development work in the North Island. There were many thousands of acres of Crown lands suitable for settlement which needed breaking in, and the Government was now considering the question of organising camps on tho same lines as the Public Works camps with the idea of absorbing a number pf men in the creation of national assets. The whole scheme, Mr Webb added, would be reviewed on the return of Hon. W. Nash, when all the Ministers would he able to give further attention to the problem. Unfortunately, the South Island did not offer the same opportunities for land development as the North Island, and the question of irrigation would receive added consideration on that account.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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194WORK FOR SINGLE MEN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 8
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