UNEMPLOYMENT.
Mr D. McLaren, M.P., is endeavouring to induce the Government to deal with the problem of unemployment by legislation. He suggests that an insurance scheme be instituted to provide against unemployment among those engaged in skill-
Ed trades, or tliat reserves of land be set aside on which the labour of . men out of employment might be utilised. The former proposal, in a country with a population of barely a million, is premature. The latter might easily form part of a progressive system of land settlement. If the Government were to follow the example set in Western Australia, and allow unemployed men to take up land, with a right of purchase, paying them weekly wages for a year or two, and charging these against the rental or purchasing value, the problem of unemployment j w.oiild speedily be solved. It is to be feared, however, that there is not- a man in the Ministry to-day who is capable of evolving a progressive land settlement system.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10109, 3 October 1910, Page 4
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165UNEMPLOYMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10109, 3 October 1910, Page 4
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