THE UNEMPLOYE0D.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4316, 30 May 1879, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYEOD.

['■'" The following letter, enclosing rewlntions passed at the pm»lic meeting in Christchurch, on Wednesday was forward* i to Wel« lington by the Mayor ywterday : — j November 22nd, 1879. I Tbe Honorable the Miniiker of Public Worlo, [ Wellington. - , Sir,—l have the honor to forward copy of reaolatuma passed at a meeting of tbe unemployed, held last evening afc tie Oddfellows' BaU, Hchfield eteeei. . . ■ I wish to say that tbe meeting was one of the largest and most orderly I bare Been is Christchurch, the necessary expulsion of a drunken man alone interrnptiijg the orderly character of the proceedings. Frees a tabulated statement produced at tbe meeting, it a»fc ebootSS per cent, of parmtively reoeni arrirals, and for the most part daykbozen. , -•■ , I am eatiffie?, frem inquiries and personal obserratioa, that there are musbers of men with who ire-desirons of obtaining employmea;, bat uafortanately cannot obtatt it at Hie present time. I would desire to point out, in order to mafc the more urgent case*. She City Council have given employment to » WtiqifaJ mmber et stone- i breakmg, but as $hhj are oyerdrawn at the bank some three thousand, poenda etforlififfs it must be obviotu that they, ale' not Lα s position work. Under these ..circumiiauces I would respectfsJly arge upon _the Gpratament to take into their earnest cossidexa&isn the letter dai&si 24ih" inst., which X had the howw bo forward as the joint application. cLthe City Council and the fcydeutaia Borough OonnciL , M*T I'reqaeet am eariy reply. X hare the honor to be, Sir.