THE UNEMPLOYED DOWN SOUTH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4708, 2 May 1894, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYED DOWN SOUTH.

(By Telegraph.—Prißji.3 Association), CnwsTcuunoH, May 1, A publio meeting to consider tho unemployed question was held tonight, There was a good attendance, The Mayor presided. Messrs G. TV*. Russell and W. W. Tanner,M.H.R.'s, and tho Bishop of Clnistchurcb, were present. It was resolved to ask the Government to bring the allotment system into operation in the vicinity of the principal towns; that ono ov more State farms should be established in Canterbury, to make an appeal to the public and raise funds to find work for tho more ndvancod in years of the onemployed in beautifying and improving the city and environs, and to call on the Government to introduce a Lands for Settlement Bill providing for compulsory repurchase, Mr Collins, M.G.R,, speaking to the motion regarding the allotment system, fnid it was simply dangling i impossibilities before the unemployed, Tho Premier has written to the Mayor of Ohrislcliurch, explaining the position taken up by tbe Government with regard to tbe unemployed. The Premier declurea that "it is only upon reproductive works lhat employment can he given, and as this class of works is growing less from 1 year to year fewer men will bo able to , find cinplnymetitiipon them, Haying I regard to the means at command; the its best endea-

I vours to provide work fot the moat necessitous oases. \ To provide work [ for oil who attend ir.eetingß of unemployed, is wholly impossible.". Tim Cabinet, hae approved of tho £2500 for tlit! erection of a laundry at the Bunuyeido Asylum. Tbe excavation work will be done on the co operative svstem,