Attempt to Absorb.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 8

Attempt to Absorb .

THE WORKLESS ARMY GOVERNMENT’S OBJECTIVE THOROUGH SURVEY PLANNED SPECLAL COMMITTE TO ACT (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A determined effort to ensure useful employment for able-bodied men now out of work has been started by the Government, according to a statement by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, In announcing the setting up of a special committee to make a thorough survey of the Industrial and economic position of the country and to make recommendations that will enable the Government to reach Its objective. The committee has been asked to submit a 12 months’ plan dealing with avenues of employment and in emphasising the Government’s resolve to carry it into effect Mr Savage made it plain that nothing will be allowed to stand In its way. The first meeting of the committee was held yesterday, the acting-Minis-ter of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, presiding. Several other Ministers were present and also representatives of State Departments and Mr Savage himself paid a brief visit. He said in order to give some inal- - of what the country expected when a complete survey of conditions was made the survey would embrace the housing question as well as ether matters of a local and national nature. The Government’s aim was to take men off sustenance and put them under reasonable conditions. Mr Savage said it was their Intention to build homes for the people at the earliest possible moment and to carry on local and public works including public buildings. That meant planning. “ We are not going to allow any element subversive or otherwise to stand between ue and the carrying out of our pledges to the people of this country,” he concluded.