THE UNEMPLOYED.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9110, 22 May 1895, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM. J NAPIER, May 21.

Tnere is a peculiar state of things in connection with the unemployed here. Complaints have from time to time been made that the reports of the Labour Bureau as to the sta*£ of the labour market here are not accurate. This appears to be due to the marked disinclination to register with the Bureau. The other day a meeting of unemployed was held, when the Mayor was informed by the poUce that only one man had registered. He advised them to register in view of several Government building contracts being put in hand. Since then eighty more names, many those of carpenters, have been handed to the Mayor, but only two or three have been registered at the Bureau. The only reason \ given by the men, when asked at the meeting why they did not register, was that they feared they would be prosecuted for having no visible means of support. The Mayor endeavoured to reassure them on that point, bnt apparently without; success. A considerable number of carpenters will soon be required, and the police are to select them from the registered list, but there are not enough carpenters on the list. The hulk of the men are undoubtedly capable and anxious for work, but for some unaccountable reason will not go the right way to get it.