THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2251, 24 July 1908, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.

WORK AT NAPIER. NO DIFFICULTY EXPERIENCED. [Press Association.] ; NAPIER, July 23. Tlio unemployed difficulty experienced in other centres has not yet reached 1 Napier. Mr. Gohns, officer in charge of the local branch of the Labor Department, states that all applicants for work arc being satisfactorily placed, although conditions are not sufficiently rosy to warrant an influx of unemployed workers., LABOR IN CHRISTCHURCH. CITY COUNCIL EMPLOYING MEN. [Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, July 23. The weather conditions which obtained to-day were more favorable than those ruling the previous day, and all who were on relief works in the city were able to put in full time. That the number of .men who .are genuinely out of work is decreasing seems fairly apparent. The list submitted to the Oitv Council on Monday evening by the secretary of the General Laborers’ Union contained 157 names. The next day 88 men registered at the Labor Bureau, and yesterday 34 registered at the City Council. T 0 date railway passes have been issued by the Labor Department to 27 men who accepted work on the Midland railway works beyond Broken River. Six men have acecepted work on the West Coast, and to date the City Couucil has employed 38 men, 22 of whom were taken on this morning. In addition, a number of men have taken odd jobs offered by residents in and about the city. The 38 men taken on by the City Council up to date are either married men or men with dependents, and the larger- proportion of them expect to feet into work as soon as the weather clears. The majority of the men are not dependent on navvyiiig, but. are carpenters, butebere, slaughtermen, and gardners. The city surveyor informed a reporter that the Council had put on every man who had presented himself at the Council office who'had dependents and who were not in a position to take work on the Midland railway, men who were either too old for that class of work, or men who have a number of dependents, and are so situated that they would not leave town, such as men who had a large number of children. These men required some temporary assistance to tide them over till the weather becomes more settled. At another meeting of unemployed to-day, it was decided to meet to-mor-row morning and go round with a spring cart and beg for -food and ueceeearigs for the unemployed.