AUCKLAND'S BOGIE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 479, 19 July 1902, Page 3

AUCKLAND'S BOGIE.

VANISHING OF THE UNEMPLOYED

(By Telograph—Pross Association.) Auckland, last night. During tho week Mr Ferguson, of tho Labor Bureau, notified that 24 positions on tho Government railway works were to bo filled, and all married men or singlo mon with people depending on thorn were invited to attend at his office this afternoon for tho purpose of ballottiug for the situations. The Mayor attended to superintend tho ballot, and Mr S. Tyson (representing a number of Labor Unions) was present. There woro only 24 applicants, and so there was no nood for a ballot.

Mr Tyson said that it was clear that tho number of unemployed in the city was not exoosaive. As a representative of labor ho thought the cry about unemployed had been raised thoughtlessly and carelessly. A telegram had been sent to Wellington, stating that there were 700 unemployed in Auckland. The Mayor said that he cordially agreed with what Mr Tyson had said. Tho affair had been a very bad advertisement for the city, and was totally unfair. Mr Tyson said he hod heard of oases whero men had loft their situation since the agitation commenced, and had come to the bureau. Mr Ferguson said that of all the applicants there was not one who came for work with a “ pauper cry.”