DEPRESSION IN ADELAIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2

DEPRESSION IN ADELAIDE.

Referring to the depression which at present exists in various brandies of trade in Adelaide, the South Australian Advertiser of the 2Gtli February remarks: —" There arc but few important trades which have not severely suffered, and on all sides we receive accounts of reduced establishments, idle machinery, and operatives out of work. The weekly 1 wage-sheets of most large business firms have teen considerably' cut down, In some oases the reduction has pqunted tg as much as GO per gent,, and there are other establishments where It Is even greater, The result of this decreased activity in almost all branches of business has neoessarily boon great distress among tho working classes. We have already shown at what a rapid rate South Australia is losing her population through the continued exodus to the other colonies; and when we learn that several trade societies have actually been assisting men to leave the colony for Melbourne, it may be readily imagined that the state of the labor market here has not been painted in too gloomy colors, The . movement to find employment for the 1 men who are out of work was not started a whit tqq sqon. No doubt can be felt as to the reality qf tlje that exists around us, nor wijl anyone acquainted ' with the real oircumstanoes of the case 1 deny that it is the boundon duty of the j Government to make provision, as far as possible, for the employment of those thrown out of work."- i