THE UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 September 1922, Page 6

THE UNEMPLOYED.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—A while back there appeared a letter in your journal, signed by a Mr. Chapman, of Warea, whom I happen to know by repute, pointing out his surprise at getting no response to his advertisement for a man for his farm, notwithstanding the fact that he was offering as much as £3 per week. At a recent visit to town I garnered sufficient information to convince me that the above named farmer did not overdo it a bit when he stated his opinion that some would rather starve in town (with a bob’s worth of Charlie Chaplin, a pint of beer, and the wherewithal for rugger match, etc.) rather than go into the country to work, thereby helping the man on the land to produce the wealth that will pay the' bill New Zealand owes—and, quietly, it’s no small one—and. as we are mostly aware, it can only be paid out of our broad acres. Why, we have married townies up this way who, finding things getting slack in New Plymouth, took their courage In both hands, and, although it meant keeping two homes together, worked all winter, and have come through with flying colors. That’s “guts," as Shakespeare would say. Tell me, Sir, cannot other able bodied men do likewise, especially the single men? All honors and glory to that fine body of men, the Pierrots, fof coming to the aid of the real deserving cases, but still methinks a lot of the town’s unemployed are not doing enough to help themselves.—l am, S. J. HAYWARp. Awakino, September 2, 1922. P.S.—Glance at the milking advertisements in any day’s paper, and see if there are not some small atoms of truth in the above.