UNEMPLOYED IN NEW ZEALAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 183, 24 July 1908, Page 2

UNEMPLOYED IN NEW ZEALAND

position in cuuistcui'kcii. By Telegraph.—Press Association. (Jhristclmrch, Last Night. Tlie weather conditions which obtain•d to-day were more favorable to those ailing the previous day, and all who vere on the relief works m the city vere illilc lo |iut in lull time. That trie minticr of men who are genuinely out >f work is decreasing seems fairly npmrent. The list submitted to the City iomicil on .Monday evening by the secetary of tile (,'eneral Laborers' Union ionliiinod 157 names. The next day (!) men registered at the Labor liurenii, iml yesterday 34 registered at the City .'ouiicil. To date, railway passes have wen issued by the Labor Department ■o 27 men wlio accepted work on the ilidluml railway works beyond Broken liver. Six men have accepted work on !li<' West Coast, and to date the Citv ■ouiicil has employed 118 men, 22 of vlioni were taken on this morning. Jn ddition, a number of men have taken >dd jobs oll'ered by residents in and ili'uil the city. The 38 men taken on i.v the City Council up to date are ■ilher married men or men with depenlenls, and the larger ' proportion of hem expect 10g,4 w ork as ■OOll as the weather clears. The. ma - orit.y of the men are carpenters, bul'l'ers, slaughtermen, and gardeners. The ity surveyor iiiforiued a reprcsclila.iv.- of Truth that the Council Had put "ii every man who had presented him--elf at the Council office, wlio had dependents, and who were not in a position to take work on the Midland railway; men who were either too old for Iha I. class of work, or men u*o have a number of dc|iclidenls and are so situated thai, they could not leave (own. Mich a» men who had a large number ol children. These men required some iemporary assistance to tide them over till the weather becomes more Settled. At another meeting of unemployed held to-day it was decided to meet 'tomorrow morning and go round with a spring cart to beg for food and necessaries for (lie unemployed. Napier, Last Night. The unemployed difficulty experienced m other centres has not' vet reached Napier, ifr.' Johns, officer' in charge of the local branch of the Labor Department, stales that all applicants for work are being satisfactorily placed, although conditions are not sufficiently rosy to warrant an influx of unenmloved workers. ' |