THE UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 160, 7 July 1909, Page 4

THE UNEMPLOYED.

RELIEF VCQRKS- W- XWJMGIBS>, (By Telegranh.—rrjess Asapcigtipe.).: WELLINGTON Tuesday.

There was again a big- batch of nnepi ployed, in. waiting., to see the Mayor tbis morning, to implore- that- more-work* 1* put in hand; to, provifla relief, for th» workless. The staffs of the City GoiiwA already, are doubly manned; on some j and every.whera there ai"& ftulL gangs, *in>- ] plored. The city engineer's department 'has-put in hand all tlie-aiitlioriseiwotta that can be under-taken a-t present: Btv I tween 30 and 40" unemployed: people «■*' ■ gisterect their- names to-day with-the; seci retary to the Unemployed" ReUet Conp. rnittee. . The Acting-Minister for- Lands (JffpiD. Buddb) is. having! m report presws|S; showing what, land is available-witKii; reasonable distent* of a* railway or? ; l>*f\hour, for cutting up_ Into small; under the Land Improvement Act.' ,TW measure- enables the Government-tamely advances to settlers for the ersetioit qfc't; cottagf and for clearing a certain,-sw*r of, lead., and: iff suitable land for the: pose cart; be- found, it is- anticipated! that by sneir means a certain* amount of could be afforded to. those through the recent stringency i"**. thrown out of employment. Tito Citizens' Unemployed Relief Eont: ncnv totals £U'l. Between 30- aa&M men registered- their names to>das>- ?jJfe the secretary to the relief committee. , ; APPEAL TFO> (THI^tCBMER^.: TrEHvLJENGTON, Tuesday: \ In his sd3res» to. tile- Anglican; Synat this afternoon, Bishog WalTis-referre4;t*. the unemployed- problem-. "Baring" tt* next few months at least," he saidiP "there may be a considerable- inoreasft ok the distress- among- tire wage earners 1 of. our community. E do not think. thatl:lr have spent a day in- Wellington, for sspi eral weeks without receiving; either from our- fellow citizens wiof ■«* out of employment or from, immigrantywho hare been disappointed in-'Hofcv obtaining wort in New whict they had been unable- to find, at Homey , , I make no question, my dear bro.tfiersj: that you will meet this need generousjj : and sympathetically, but we are anxjou% a-lso, that our help, should be wisely given; The problem which is one with wMcfc we- are unfamiliaT;;anqr that for two reasons. The first in a fertile country with a small : pop! l T lation such as ours, extreme jroyertt; must be- unknown to- the extent, ia Trhicit it exists in a less productive and »*! more thickly populated land; the secpnireason is that hospitals and henevolenfr institutions generally in New Zealand are supported, not by voluntary contri* butsions, but by the rates, and are, con* trolled by public bodies. Wβ ongbfe therefore, to set ourselves to make «S earnest study- of- wba-t are knotm •■ social and economic- questions. Itis~tra* that most. of. the. literature on this/sufcr jeet deals with conditions -which, do. not at present belong- to our colonial life; but the principles by which all TVia*, | actions in the settlement of social con?, ditions oiigßt to be gpverned are of tift j utmost importance to us all. Such;) j study, though in reality of deep i interest, may seem at first sight diffieulji-.j and perplexing, and I therefore suggw*- j that groups sh.au W be formei' '<»■ churchmen n-nd ehurchwomen for j purpose*"