The Unemployed Difficulty.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 237, 6 April 1895, Page 2

The Unemployed Difficulty.

THE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS. (Per Press Association). Wellington, April 5. Government ha 3 adopted a large and comprehensive scheme which, it is believed will absorb the whole of the deserving unemployed of the colony. The scheme, which will involve considerable expenditure, is to be put into operation forthwith. It is proposed to proceed with important road works between Auckland and Tarnnaki, including: the Stratford road, on an adapted system of parfial time, alloting men sections tor settlement of their families in the vicinity. The Stratford road, for instance, will be cleared ten chains in readiness for settlement. Other extensive road works are to be inaugurated between Wellington and Napier, and in the South Island, and the improvement and roadmg of Crown lands is to be gone on with o» chis principle wheneversuitable blocks are available, preference being- given to married then who will settle at once with their families upon the sections which are allotted them, and which they will improve. The timber on the various blocks is to be utilised by the erection of Government sawmill?, and the cutting- out of blocks for the supply of timber to the Home and Australian markets in view of the improved demand now existing, the mills and works generally being conducted as far as possible on the co-operative system. This scheme is understood to be the outcome of the visit the Minister for Labor paid to similar settlements and works in the neighboring- colonies last year.