GOVERNMENT DELAYS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2580, 28 June 1881, Page 2

GOVERNMENT DELAYS.

[to the editor.] Sir, —Can you inform me when the Government intend to keep their promise made to the unemployed in their telegram to the Mayor of Timaru some weeks back. The general public were informed that the Albury line would be opened at once in small sections to suit the circumstances that had been reported to the Government. They were also informed afterwards that surveyors were sent to survey the line, and immediately after they had done, the contracts or the tenders for them would be out. Mr Calcutt stated that all this would take about ten days. The unemployed in reality put up with the untruths told to them to put them off from time to time, but after a decided answer has been given to them from the Government, why so much delay P Why so much red tape P Cannot the works be opened? The line has now to my own knowledge been surveyed several times; indeed several men in town can tell from memory the results of the survey, and they could not do this without they had been over it some few limes. My reasons for asking you these questions are because the offices of the Working Men’s Labor League and Political Union arc daily beset for news which cannot be given them. “ When are we to be set at work ?” is the question asked by hundreds. Are we to starve while the surve} r ors are making their pile out of us ? Do the Government mean to give us work ? If they deceive us, next election will tell a tale now we have our votes. Such are the expressions daily heard hero, and no satisfaction can be given to the men who are in reality under no obligation to the Government, but only asking for what has been promised them. Trusting to your usual courtesy for the insertion of this.—l am, &c., H. E. BOARDMAN. Secretary Working Men’s Labor League and Political Union.