UNEMPLOYED MEN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 244, 28 July 1936, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED MEN.

INCREASE IN CHRISTCHURCH

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 27‘

The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr J. W. Beanland) said to-day, in addressing a. meeting of the Garden Allotments Committee, an organisation for helping unemployed men to grow vegetables, that there were more unemployed men in Christehurch today than there were a year ago. The committee had hoped that there would be no further need for its activities, 'but in View of the position as revealed: by the unemployment figures, he thought that the committee would have to carry on. Mr 3V, wW. Seal-ff said that from the figures it appeared that Christchurch was 300 worse off than at this time last year. Mr Beaunland said various local bodies, including the City Council, had materially curtailed the number of men employed on u‘elief work. There seemed to be more men on sustenance than ever before. He was not sure of: the exact facts, but there had been an ap~ parent increase during the last two cr three months.

Mr M. J. Barnett, director of Parks and Reserves, said the number of men applying for free firewood was more than double that of any previous year.