Last Thursday TV One’s Seven Sharp had
an interesting segment about unemployment, or more accurately the way it is
being confronted in Balclutha. The region has been hit hard in recent times.
150 people had just lost their jobs with company closures, including three sawmills. That’s 150 family incomes lost.
Fortunately the Clutha District (Pop
17,000) has a Mayor called Bryan
Cadogan. There was a time when he was unemployed, so he knows being unemployed
is not a nice place to be. His goal is zero unemployment for youth in his district. He put it this
way; “zero is only a number, but it’s the only one that has not got an
individual behind it”.
