UNEMPLOYED RELIEF
NORTH SHORE PROTEST When the question of unemployment insurance was raised at the meeting of the Waitemata Chamber of Commerce last evening, Mr. S. E. Kennings protested strongly’ against the present methods of asking business firms and local bodies to find money for relief of unemployment. The unemployable and helpless were being supported at the expense of the thrifty and careful people, he said. The chairman. Mr. T. Walsh, said that the problem was exceedingly serious; the community' had to deal with two classes of unemployed—one class, the unemployable or inefficient men, and the second class those who, however able, could not secure .vork. The 1921 census showed that 240,000 people were wage-earners in New Zealand. Since then over 40,000 aduits or people of working age had been imported into New Zealand in addition to those in the country who came of age in a working sense. Some national method of meeting the situation was imperative. Mr. G. Minchin said that the nominated system of bringing in workers was a farce; it merely was a blind method of getting men here and throwing them on the labour market.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 6
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