THE UNEMPLOYED – DEPUTATION TO THE MAYOR.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 798, 28 July 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE UNEMPLOYED - DEPUTATION TO THE MAYOR.

A DEPIJTATJON;- representing i the- unemployed waited on ;the Mayor on Wednesday to present the. requisition . mentioned, in our, last issue. It bore ov.'er tvyoT hundred names. ! The Mayor '.received the, depiitatioa courteonsly) arid pfpriused to . lay the matter before' th!e Council 1 ., ;He ( thought no advantage; would be . . gained by convening the. public meeibingV ( ",_ . .'JEjp, ,'was >a.bpujj to visit Wellington, wh'ere he, would ; 'represent to the ' 'Gdverhm^ntj'thfr necessity for^ letting . further railway 1 sections, and meanwhileiihe C6unwr\y6;uld' .probably do thqir utmost to prbss forward 'ci^jj ivprks on hand.: Exten- . si6ns'6i tiin.e. ha,d beeii granted,tq .contractors and' he did not 'know;, hpw that r might affect' ,thfe matter.', , In .the future, however, he'wpiil^for'his own'p^rt endeavour to exerfcisela yew rigid' supervision , over time extensibhs.', The petition, was j , brought before the members' of the^Coun'eilin committee this af tei-noon^wheiilt was agreed to give the unemp^pyedjS^o.ne-ibreakinginany quan-: tity W 4Sj3d p. y^i'd,, atn(j ajso to/call tenders) 'imn^e^tely , my, th^j formation, of, jCplling-; wopd-s'treet. " Tt was further resolved.that contrapfp^s, .shall,^receiyje .notice '.that,; no i further extension of time will be given.! •The Mayor stated^ tha^hej w,Qu^d AMiute to j the general, iGpyej-nnieni, on. , the, • subj ect. • This.is ,'jin4iiestipnably ,th,e mpstjiniportant iS'tep.,V/The(j.city:'wprJfs .,can : :at ,best >only staye^the.wo'lf f|i;pin tlie" 4fior,.and are quite insufficient to give permanent rvViQiilctO'the •large body of slabgijrers, Wjho^arft now suffering genui^ej'distres^,4rA^cJciand .Star. , >