FINDING WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 18 July 1929, Page 9

FINDING WORK

GOVERNMENT’S DIFFICULTIES STATEMENT BV PflfME MINISTER SOUTH ISUANi) MAIN 'iii/UNli WOHK. (By Telegraph) (From “The Mail's” Parliamentary lteportor) VV IvLLIKI i'L'ON, 171 k July. A declaration that llu: Government is doing everything it possibly ran .to cope willi unemployment ami lliat it i.s hoped to do much more when the Financial Statement has been presented was made by the Prime Minister in thy House of licpn'scntatives to-day. Sir Joseph Ward said members of the House were showing a tendency to speak as if the Government had an unlimited purse ,il its disposal, and as if every local body which was troubled with unemployment had a right to demand that it, should receive something like £25,001). Mr F. I.angstone (Waimarinu) : “Who else can they go to?” Sir Joseph' Ward: "This country has not provided the Government with the means of employing everybody.” .Members ought to speak a little more plainly to those who were, urging them to find employment for them. There was an incessant cry from those who were dismissed on completion of jobs for the Government for work to be found for them immediately but the Government could not do that. It was absolutely impossible. It was not fair to say the Government was not doing its best to meet, flie position. It was finding work in all directions and yet there were members who spoke as if (lie Government was doing nothing. “As a matter of fact,’ said the Prime, Minister, “we are doing a very great deal and we are prepared to do a great deal more. It is not fair for local bodies to ask the Government for a £ for £ subsidy at a time when unemployment is rife. ft is impossible to give it. In <lcaling with unemployment we have to take a rational view. We have done the best we can to meet cases at the present, time. We have men demanding work as soon as a job is finished before we have time to turn round and before we know whether fresh works can he put in hand. Me can't do impossibilities. As soon as I get the Financial Statement before the House L hope to find employment for a great many more men.” Mr I). G. Sullivan (Avon): “Gel on wit.li the, South Island Main Trunk.” Sir Joseph Ward: “Vos. w ( > will do this. There is no question about that. I hope to bo able to put 2000 or 0000 men on that, work.” ~Alf Tarbtlor the “UNIQUE” trot Water Bottle on frosty nitrlits. Why not buy another? Guaranteed the best.