LORD CARRINGTON AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 361, 20 April 1889, Page 6

LORD CARRINGTON AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

Speaking to a deputation of i unemployed at Sydney. Lord Carrington said that, as a constitutional Governor, he could offer no opinion on the suggestions con* tamed in the statement. He had nd doubt from personal observation, as well as from the information which he had just received from themselves and others, thata large numberof industrious, ablebodied ■ men had failed to obtain employnient. To them, he .offered his warmest sympathy, ;but the Government were advancing as rapidly as possible with, the public works, which were, after, all, : the best means of providing a natural outlet for labour. The rains which ad fallen and the revival of trade in Bng-

land, as well as here, must brighten the prospects of the industrial classes, and he trtfsted^tHab'rMVate enterprise would also help ,to remove the serious depression which thVcolony had gone through, and wjiich so many" of them had so couiageously faced. v '

ASSISTED IMHII<;nATION , \ ,1 ,t ,' 'u ; Some months ago tb© attention of the Premier qf South. Australia was called by the Trades and Labour Council of Adelaide to the provision in' the Imperial Local^Government Act' enabling county councils to borrow money to make advances to persons as a means of assisting them in , emigrating to the colonies. Mr Playford has communicated with Mr Blyth, expressing the opinion, thab the provision referred to might be used to get rid of paupers and other undesirable persons. The Premier stated that he wished it clearly understood that the colony strongly objected 'to by mude the receptacle of such classes; and that if anything of Che kind were attempted steps would be taken to prevent their landing here. A reple was received recently Irom home to the eflfect that the letter had been laid before Lord Knutsford, but that it was not intended under the power conferred by, the Act that advances should be made'for sending to the colony feeble or idle people or inmates of workhouses.