SETTLING THE LAND.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20269, 11 August 1937, Page 9

SETTLING THE LAND.

JOBS FOR UNEMPLOYED. MINISTER’S PROPOSALS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Having completed his task of providing rotational full-time employment for 7000 married men throughout the Dominion, the aotlng-Minlster of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, is now giving serious attention to the problem of finding suitable Jobs for single men Registered as unemployed. The Minister said to-day that he hoped very shortly that there would he a considerable number of men employed on farm development work In the North Island. There were many thousands of acres of Crown lands Suitable for settlement, which needed breaking in, and the Government was ©onsldering the question of organising ©amps on the same lines os the Public (Works camps with the Idea of absorbing a number of men on the creation krf national assets. The whole soheme, Mr Webb added, ■would be reviewed on the return of Nash, when all the Ministers would he able to give further attention to the problem. Unfortunately, the South Island did not offer the same opportunities for land development as the Horth Island, and the question of irrigation would reoeive added consideration on that aooount.