Unemployed Must Be Three Months in N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 1

Unemployed Must Be Three Months in N.Z.

CONDITION IMPOSED CABINET AT WORK Press Association PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today. Despite the fact that the major prob.em of creating avenues of employment for the early placing of the unemployed has been dealt with the Cabinet committee which I is administering the Government’s unemployment relief proposals is finding itself fully occupied at the meetings which it is having daily. | Tho Prime Minister announced that it will be necessary to enforce the i stipulation that men engaged must • have been resident for three months ! in the Dominion. ; “The object of this will be obvl- . ous,” said Sir Joseph, ‘‘if some such safeguard were not applied there | would, in all probability be an influx iof workers from overseas with the result that the position would become i worse than if the Government made no attempt to deal with the situation. ! “As soon as the registrations are ( sufficiently complete,” added the Prime Minister, “it will be possible to allocate men. The object will be to distribute them as far as possible with i the best advantage to themselves, that : is, as near to their homes as possible. It will be recognised that this will not be practicable to the extent that the Government would like, but it will be followed wherever it is reasonable to