UNEMPLOYMENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 647, 27 September 1933, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

ROTARY INTEREST

district governor t. c. list asks clubs for . . assistance DRIFTING TO PERMANENCY The unemployment situation in the Dominion was referred to yesterday by the District Governor for New Zealand, Rotarian T. C. List, at the weekly luncheon of the Rotorua Rotary Club. Rotarian List said that this question would have to be considered by rotary clubs in the Dominion during the coming year with & view to taking an interest in the problem and assisting to provide some sblution of the difficulty. He considered that if the Dominion went on as at present, before long it would reach the stage of having permanent unemploymient and as a possibility of remedying* the' trouble he felt that members of rotary clubs in the Dominion should pool their knowledge ;and provide their suggestions to the authorities, particularly in regardj to finding employment for boys. Many Opportunities It seemed a crime that the Dominion should have the amount of unemployment which it . did, continued the speaker, particularly when throughout the country there could be seen opportunities for creating enough_work to provide for" all the uncmployed in New Zealand. He considered that . the time was. coming when the Dominion would have to carry a larger population and. that the Dominion would have to prepare for decreased prices for its products on overseas markets. It would be necessary to organisie 'employment if there was to be any advance as this work could not be expected of a political machine, living from hand to mouth, and not having the time for adequate consideration of the problem. He thought that Rotary could. do a great deal to relieve the problem and a committee had been appointed to submit a scheme to himself and past district governors which couldi. be placed before the next Rotary Conference at New Plymouth for consideration. He also stated that an unemployment insurance scheme had been distributed among the clubs in the Dominion for their consideration and that this, also, would be discussed at the conference.