THE UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 145, 16 July 1909, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED.

POSITION AT CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph Press Association. C'hriutchurch, Lust Night. At the Trades Hall to-day there was iui average number of callers. Amongst tlicni was a mail who had .been out of work for two months', with the exception of one week's work under the City Council. He has ten dependents oa liim, Out. of 40 men whose names appear on the latest posted list at the (Jity Council ollices, thirteen have to date applied for work ottered. iMr. J. Lomas, Chief Inspector of Factories, who was in town to-day, informed a Press representative that the : Government are doing everything pos-1 iible to relieve the unemployment ex-1 isting in the Dominion. This was borne out, lie added, by 'the numbers for whom employment had been found. As far as he knew, men on the hush-felling work were satislied iwith the conditions under which they wefe working. Referring to the passengers by the Athenic, Mr. Lomas .pointed out that none of them were assisted by the .Suite, except farmers, farm laborers, and domestics, fl'lie Mayor lias' instituted enquiries of the municipal authorities in Wellington on. the subject of the basis on which the Government is subsidising tho funds raised for the relief of the unemployed, but so far has received no p'y--1 DEPUTATION TO THE ACTLN'G- | PREMIER. ) Wellington, Lust Night. 1 The citizens' unemployed relief fund < now amounts to £740. Tile relief committee waited on i<ie ■ Acting-Premier to-day, asking if the • Government would subsidise money ■ spent ill making the carriage drive oil 1 Mount Victoria and the construction of 1 a recreation ground at Kilbirnie. It was stated that the hospital trustees ' proposed to erect a fever hospital, lie- ! cessitating excavations costing .LiOOO, ■ and it was suggested that the Govern: 1 ment should anticipate its contribution I by giving i'oOO to the relief committee for some of this work to be done. It • was stated there are still quite 300 men out of work, including 150 with families. The Hon. J. Carroll, in reply, said it appeared that only £llOO could be .expended on Victoria College. That meant tl.wO of Government subsidy. Jt would be a pity if that money was lost. The Government might see fit to spend its subsidy on Mount View. There were eighty acres of State property there, and a lot of excavation to be done. That work would absorb a number ot the unemployed. The Government had decided to make certain alterations to the Legislative Council buildings. That work would absorb some 20 or 30 carpenters, and would be put in hand as soon as possible. The Government would carefully consider the proposals submitted by the deputation as to the road to the signal station, and the proposal that the Government should spend the whole of tile subsidy on Victoria College and allow the funds collected to be spent on city works. He thought they should be careful not to oiler too much encouragement to people from outside to drift into Wellington. The Government would do what it could. He would get Cabinet together, and let the committee know the result to-morrow. ========