Christchurch Unemployed.
(Per Press Association) Christchxjrch. July 13. The first meeting of the Uuemployed Relief Committee, appointed at a public meeting last week, was held to-day. It was resolved to ask a number of bodies to be represented on the committee to appeal to newspapers to advocate their cause, and to receive subscriptions, and to ask for subscriptions from the Premier and the city and suburban members of Parliament for Canterbury. The Mayor stated that ho intended heading the list with £5 ss. During the discussion the Mayor intimated that he had not much sympathy with the means proposed. He felt that this tinkering with the question year after year was doing no good, and was bringing the solution of the unemployed question no nearer. He did not agree with the necessity for the present movement, as he had been to the Charitable Aid Board, aad had been informed that that body was prepared to deal with any necessitous cases So long as the citizens would look after the unemployed the Government would do nothing in the matter.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1896, Page 3
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178Christchurch Unemployed. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1896, Page 3
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