AUCKLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 86, 12 April 1927, Page 19

AUCKLAND'S UNEMPLOYED.

NEED OF ASSISTANCE.

ORPHANS' C LIB .SYMPATHETIC

The members of the Auckland Orphans Club, at the annual meeting on Saturday evening, referred to the com in it tee I for favourable consideration a sujrges- • tion that the tluh should make n donait ion towards alleviating the distress arising from the prevailing unemployment. Mr. George W. Hutchison said a rather serious state of affairs existed in the city in respect to unemployment. Social workers were hard pressed to provide all the needed assistance. Whether or not pessimism was justified, business people were very pes-imist ic, holding [money in the banks rather than putting it nut fur trade and enterprise. j The president. Mr. Win. Wallace. e\- : pressed the belief that hard conditions would be encountered this winter. The Auckland Hospital Board had exceeded jby £.-«oun the amount of £2<l,lH>o allocated for relief, the sum of £2.1.000 I having been paid out for assistance in j the city during the year. Mr. Wallace subsequently stated to a "Star"' representative that he was of the opinion that the Government should proI vide for the unemployed, and that it should not be a charge upon the local ratepayers. At the lnM meeting of the Hospital Relief Committee there 'were 1-tO applications for assistance, and he was afraid that the number ■would increase during the winter months.