THE UNEMPLOYED.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1922, Page 4

THE UNEMPLOYED.

WELLINGTON FINDS WORK. SPECIAL LOAN TO BE RAISED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The City Council has decided to raise a special loan of £12,000 to tide the unemployed over a few more weeks, and a special meeting of the council to-day decided on various works on which men will be employed. The principal work will be roading the Homebush estate at Khandallah, recently purchased by the council for settlement purposes. The Mayor, in a statement, said he wanted to make it perfectly clear that the various works were being started solely for the relief of local distress, and the council would not entertain applications from unemployed in other districts. He hoped the works would give relief until conditions improved in the spring. In order that no delay should occur, the council intends to provide for the first contracts out of money on hand. POSITION IN NEW PLYMOUTH. COMPLAINT AT MINISTER’S TREATMENT. (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington. Last Night. Mr. S. G. Smith (Taranaki) complained in the House to-night that th© Minister for Public Works had treated New Plymouth with scant courtesy in connection with the relief of unemployment. The town had done a great deal to help itself in this matter, and it had presented strongly a claim that work should be found for some of th© men still in need of it, but the Minister had not given adequate relief. He did not believe that ten shillings a day was an adequate wage to offer the unemployed. The amount of actual distress in the Dominion at the present time was large enough to deserve more sympathetic consideration than the Government had given it.