THE UNEMPLOYED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 4

THE UNEMPLOYED.

A NAPIER DECISION. (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, July 19. A meeting of the Citizen's Committee to-day resolved 'tiiat the Citizens’ Committee being convinced that unemployed men being attracted to Napier t through various causes the committee, while desirous of doing the best to provide employment, desire it known.' that help will be extended in the first, place to residents, married men having the preference.” SUBSCRIPTIONS IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON. July 19. At a meeting of the Citizens’ Unemployment Relief Committee to-day, it was stated that subscriptions now amounted to about £llOO. About sixty men are at work, and more will be put on local works shortly. Among the latest sums sent to the committee are £9 10s from the Vivian Street Church of Christ, £2O from the Terrace Congregational Church, besides £3 10s from that church’s Sunday School, £l7 10s from Wesley Church, £l4 15s from St. Peter’s, and £65 3s from St. John’s Church. Most of these sums were gathered at special collections yesterday. AFFAIRS IN CHRISTCHURCH, ' CHRISTCHURCH. July 19. At the Trades Hall to-day it was reported that the number of applicants for work shows no signs of diminishing, and that offers of work show no sign of increasing. Single men are complaining bitterly that they are not getting any chance whatever, neither from the City Council, tlie Labor Department, nor private employers* They state that their money is exhausted, and that they have not the same opportunities of getting credit as married men. A sub-committee of the City Council will consider the reply from the ActingPremier on the subject of the Government subsidising tlie funds raised for the relief of the unemployed. The Mayor states that some Councillors feel so strongly in regard to the differential treatment of Wellington in the matter, as compared with the treatment of Christchurch, that they are inclined to recommend that the Council should cease finding relief work. The “nationwork upon which the funds raised in Wellington are being expended” is stated to be in connection with Victoria College, and it is considered that it is a stretching of the term “national” to so describe the work mentioned. Mr. W. H. Hagger, officer in charge of the Labor Department • here, when asked if lie had seen reports stating that farmers were finding a difficulty in getting farm laborers, replied that he had seen the report referred to, and added that there was a fairly large number of men who had registered at the Department’s omce as farm laborers, men who were able to trim fences, cut ditches, plough, manage horses, or do other general work. " If farmers communicated with him, letting him know the class of laborer they want, the Department will do its very best to select men specially suitable' for the work to be done. The number of callers looking for work who called at the local office of the Labor Department last week was slightly less than it has been for the previous two or three weeks, and fewer names have been registered.