THE UNEMPLOYED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2428, 17 February 1909, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

MEETING IN WELLINGTON TOWN HALL.

[Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. A meeting to consider the question of the unemployed was held in the Town Hall last evening, the Mayor presiding. The immigration .policy of the Government was condemned, and the providing of work for the unemployed advocated. A motion was pas.s?d protesting against the continuance of the assisted immigration policy, and requesting the Government to make known in Great Britain the present overcrowed state of the labor market, also as a means of relieving the difficulty that the Government be requested to push on the construction of public works already authorised throughout the Dominion. It was also resolved that as a means of providing employment and relieving the congestion in the cities, the Government be requested to inaugurate. an up-to-date land development policy, pushing on reading and fencing, and , otherwise improving vacant Crown lands, thus providing a more satisfactory basis of land settlement, and giving added employment to the people. Another motion was iiassed urging the immediate issue of State notes to ixrovide for the vigorous prosecution of public works, the development of land setlement, and the expansion of our primary industries. A resolution was also passed, urging the Government to so shape their administration as to speedily facilitate the transition of the means of life from .private ownership for the purposes of profit to public ownership for use.