UNEMPLOYMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17980, 27 March 1930, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT.

PROVISION FOR 'WINTER. PLANS IN HAND. (Special Reporter.) RANGIRIRI, Thursday. Referring to unemployment in replying to a deputation at Rangiriri, last night, ihe Minister of Public Works, Hon. E. A. Ransom, said that one of the first things the new Go-vernor-General, Lord Bledlsloe, enquired about on the speaker being'introduced to him, was the question of unemployment. lie asked how many unemployed there were in New Zealand. When the speaker replied that the number was 3000, Lord Blcdisloo remarked: “ Then you have no unemployed problem here, not as we in the Mother Country view it.” Still the speaker recognised that in a young country like New Zealand there should be work for every able bodied man. Re thought that if wc could brighten conditions in the back districts, particularly in the direction of giving better road access, this would largely help to solve the problem of unemployment. The work of consolidating the native areas and the Government's land policy, generally, should also greatly assist in overcoming the difficulties. Speaking subsequently with a Times representative, Mr Ransom said he realised that the winter would bring a bigger quota of unemployment, but he was planing to meet it. The present works were not the only ones which the Government had In view as an outlet for unemployed labour. The position would be met as it arose.