OUT OF WORK.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18898, 13 January 1927, Page 9

OUT OF WORK.

OVER JBO MEN. POSITION STILL SERIOUS. Seven new applications for work were received at the Labour Department's Ruro.ni yesterday, the totn' now on the roll as out of employment being over ISO. Nino men were placed in private employment, and soven men on Tuesday. The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hen. Mr Downie Stewart} has instructed the Public WoTks Department to enquire and report ns to whether any work edit he provided in the Canterbury district hut at the present time the Department announces it lias no work available. The 'cloMii;; down of timber mills on the West Coast has resulted in slackness nt the Waltham railway yards, whero about 80 men have been put off during the past week. Many of these men have not, as yet. recistered as n«omploycd, but the arrival of four ovst sens ships will probably result in work beinu provided again for a time. Ihe late season for harvesting ami shearing, and the fact that the frecrine. works have not yet reached th N height of their .season's activities, U responsible for manv men having t--register as unemployed

The position has no; yei improved. but it is hoped (b;it tho number* nn< el wiM-k will •■■i-i.i be dinioisliel.

WORK SCVKCE IN WELLINGTON

LTHB PBE33 Spixjlil SifTice.l

WELLINGTON,! January 12.

Unemployment has heon mate or I*M recurrent siuce the beginning of lilt winter, and there is some evidence ths: the trouble is likely to become more acuta later. Not since 190$ have thtm been so many men unemployed at thi* timo of the year as at present, in tlu» North Island particularly. It was stated by a iravelW th.i: scores of men were to bo seen in Hr» Gisborne district carrying their swags on account of the depression in the p.si- ♦ oral and farming industries. J,i::\r.farmers who in the summer scasou usually take on a large amouut of t-xtra labour aro now carryiugj on their operations as well as they can without it. The supply of sawn timber on hand at the mills is said to be ample to meet all demands for months ahead, and that it is useless to cut and mill more bush in the meantime. The importation of foreign timber is, to a large ejtent, blamed for the want of orders for th* local mills.

Many seamen are unemployedOverseas ships bringing migrant* to the Dominion are tcfmpelw<» by the Board of Trade to carry a certain number .of extra hands, seamen, stewards, etc. On arrival in the Dominion the extra hands are paid off, and many attracted W the high wages elect to stay and talca their chance of getting VvorH in *h« coastal or inter-Colonial trade. These men on coming ashore join the New Zealand Seamen's tfnipn'or any other union concerned, and are then qolte entitled to apply for wOTfc on thft ninat conditions. It is claimed M»»* M M 1 * result of tho influx of Pr|ti»h aeamen tho local men are bejug dieplaeod and the number of unemployed on the waterfront is being added to.