UNEMPLOYMENT.
There are hundreds of men now looking for farms, and if they could be settled on the land they would not only make- room for workers at present unemployed, but 1 they would also themselves become employers of labor. The vigorous prosecution of land settlement is the most obvious! method of providing permanent employment for the workers, and in spite of the high prices ruling, for. land close to the railways, there'" is no reason why the Govemmont should call <i hall) Jii ‘this direction. Cheviot! was not in touch with the railway when it was acquired and yet its purchase was amply justified. There is, under present conditions, no twenty-four hour solution of the unemployed problem, and the Goveminent/g only course is to push on the development of the country and the closer settlement of the land as rapidly as possible.—"Lyttelton Times.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2494, 6 May 1909, Page 2
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144UNEMPLOYMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2494, 6 May 1909, Page 2
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