CROWN FARMLETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 415, 25 July 1928, Page 8

CROWN FARMLETS

SCHEME TO REUEV, unemployment”

FUND FROM PRIMAGE Btfn A plan for tha of ployment by opening u „ inlands for farmlats by me... e** fund to be raised through * crease of one-half per cent. Zl primage on imports, was D u, « ward by Mr. T. C. Enrh,k.* or ' Devonport. at a conf.r.nee Sf Vf I urban local bodies hsld last Mr. Knriglit surd that, apart .a gether from the hardship, suffet” 0 and anxiety lo the men. their j and children, with all the attend miseries of hunger, sickness ana t spondency. there was also a verv J*’ I ous economic loss In having so m - men unemployed. The relief works provided were o.i a temporary palliative, and it J! desirable, in the interests of T? 8 whole community, that a whofc hearted endeavour be made to the present unsatisfactory situation At the present time all import* 1 per cent, primage tax. which collected by the Customs Departing 1 The additional half per cent, proxxw, would not add anything to theerL' of collection, as the machinery i* T ready in operation. He knew other method of raising the mLi' that would be so equitable, and at *. same time so economical in th« lection of it. The extra primage tax would brtr in a sum of approximately annually, which would give work i 1,000 men at £ 4 a week, and a margin for tools and equipment i certain amount of production wobicommence almost immediately, tol j t three years there would be' qu’te • considerable return, and this enable further extensions of the arW to be made. Of no small Importance was th* tie that men who are at present unskfilelabourers would in the coqr*# , few years have become practical mers. and have developed an fncWß*. tlon to settle on the land, and become permanent assets to the cow try.