THE UNEMPLOYED IN SYDNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 8

THE UNEMPLOYED IN SYDNEY.

Bydsky papera by the Wairarapa to-day st'ito that the total nuuibor on tho Government Labour Bureau register has reached 7.723. A further contingent obtained work through tho bureau, and although some wore only temporarily engaged, !)1

in all were taken on. Several of these were sot to work cleaning bricks at Parliament buildings at 4s por J, OOO, tho remainder finding employment with private individuals.

Mr Joseph Oracr, the superintendent of t'io Labour Bureau, has submitted to tho Colonel Secretary a progress report,showing the operations of tho bureau between tho 38th of February and thel2fch of April. On the last-named date 7,300 persons wore registered as unemployed, their ages varying from 16 to 70 years, but two-thirds of tho total are from 20 to 40 yoar3 of ago. Only about, 1 per cont. arc too old and subv Cv to other physical dofecfc.3 to porform hard manual labour. Employment had been found for 1,8.15, free railway passes having been granted to 1,175, and steamer passes to 107, the remainder having found employment locally. Married men registered number 2,840, and the rminboi' of single men was 4,460. Married moil represented families of children to the extent of 7,129, but out of this number t\o'2 were earning their own living, leaving 6,377 dependent on parents. Of the total tliero nra 3,884 unskilled labourers, 3,141 tradesmen and mechanics, 227 clerks aid collectors, and '18 professional Lien. There were amonget the unemployed about 150 designated professional loafers, "men who never work for a living, bnb are always to the front when there is anything r> Lhn shape of relief to be obtained." Many men, says tho superintendent, aro out of employment through their uv.-n fault, because of intemperance*. The number of defaulters had been G6, men who alter regisfconng themselves had beon locked up for drunkenness. Numerous letters had been received t'rooi employees expressing satisfaction with the employment found", and also from employers satislied with tho labour supplied. Ihcre had been men who after engagement raade no attempt to roach th :ir proper "estinotione.and ethers on arrival being either disssatiatied with waees or othor circumstances, refused to work' T!ic number of trades and callings ro"i--terod by the unemployed was on the date named 111, and several of the totals arc etrikinir. in stances, itmay be said thft| . there were 305 cooks, 275 carpenters and joiner*, 137 clerks, 110 blacksmiths, 114 drivers, 110 engine-drivers, 98 engineers 150 farm hands, 18b grooms and coachmen' 140 generally usofule, 89 gardeners, 2 420 labourers, HO miners, 129 painters, 148 printer*, 162 station hands, 60 seamen. 40 eawyers, ana U stonemasons. A tablo appended to tho report shows thai arrivals horn other colonies, the United Kingdom, and toreißn parb6j who hayß

applied at the bureau between 18th February and 9bh April have been as follow :—From Victoria, 151; Queensland, .140; New Zealand, 21; Tasmania, 28; South Australia, 13 ; West Australia, 3; United Kingdom, 107 ; foreign, 46 ; total, 500.