UNEMPLOYED IN MASTERTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10663, 19 June 1912, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED IN MASTERTON.

DEPUTATION TO LABOUR DEPARTMENT. A deputation from the Waingawa meat workers, 'consisting of Messrs R. MJaltae, J;. Brewer, and 0. 'R. '•Smith, .waited on< Mr J., Goorgeson, officer in charge of 'the Masterton I Department of Labour, a few days I .'ago, tfor the purpose, of enquiring if ■work could be found for a month or ■two for those who are now rendered idle on account of the reduction in' . hands at the freezing works. Mr (R. vMcßae, as (Spokesman, pointed • out that (between twenty and-thirty men ■lliad been paid off, and these, with their (families,, .represented close on a .(hundred pennons. At present these ■men were out icif employment, with little prospect of getting work until >he imeat works opened aga»:n, as ■at this season of the year work is not •plentiful'. Mr Mdßae also pointed •o\it [that the StronvarJEast ' Coast ,R;>ad had :be«n surveyed a naumiber of years ago, and with the exception, of •a 2ft tracik being made, very little •had! Ibeen done. Sett'ens in that, dis-jti-iatj and right towards the Coast, had been asking '(for the' road to bo ; .-conqpleted, as it would mean a- big sayimg'' in .the time taken to travel from the Coast- it© Masfterton. If a-ififitM-ack wero cut, it would ho a •great caving to travelling stock, and would out down the journey by at .least two days. M this work were mhdentaken, sufficient employment Vould ibe .found .for those cut of work, fff work were not found for them, it ♦would-, mean: that these men, with itlieir-Ifamiflie'et, would have to leave ■the district. The deputation express|«d the hope that the Department -would seo its) way to do something to provide work. j Mr .Geoirgeson, of the Labour DeI partment, stated that he would do ■everything in- his power to get the ■matter lf,avourable< consideration from the head of the Department at Wellington.