THE UNEMPLOYED.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9116, 29 May 1895, Page 6

THE UNEMPLOYED.

PITIABLE CASES.

Two men, one of them sixty-four years old, called upon Pastor Birch on Monday and stated that they had been compelled to sleep the preceding night in the Park. They were in a destitute condition, and the Pastor sent them to the Charitable Aid Board office, where, he states, the officials said they could give no relief without instructions from the Board. On Saturday, at Wellington, two men who had been found sleeping in the Botanical Gardens were charged with vagrancy. The men informed hie Worship that they had no money, aud being unable to find work had sold their clothes for food. Mr Martin said he could not send the men to gaol merely for sleeping in a public reserve. The police had nothing against them, and they must sleep somewhere. Our Wellington correspondent writee :— "It is necessary to repeat that the prospects of the workless unemployed here are of the most dismal kind, and however evil a man's fortune may be he will not better it by seeking employment here if he be friendless. Yet they do come, as witness this pitiful story from this evening's paper :—Two young man, named Thos. Wilson and Geo. Wataon, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day (Tuesday) to a charge of having stowed away on the Mararoa for the passage from Lyttelton to this port. They said that they had walked from the Bluff to Lyttelton, looking for work bub in vain. At Lyttelton the police told them if they did not leave the town they would be regarded as vagrants, and would probably get three months' imprisonment. So they went on board the Mararoa. They had not a penny nor a change of clothes. Mr Martin, S.M., convicted them and discharged them." (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) '.'-~rg AUCKLAND, May 28. The Charitable Aid Board decided to aid a deputation that approached them on the question of erecting a night shelter for outcasts. WELLINGTON, May 28. At a meeting of unemployed printers this afternoon, a resolution was carried with the view of removing the impression that work can be found for all unemployed-printers at the Governmeut printing office during the session, and it was farther resolved that, " Wβ are anxious to point out that we do not desire to prevent any printer unemployed outside of Wellington obtaining employmeut in the Government printing office, but we strongly object to those persons being led to believe that there will be plenty of work for all and sundry who desire to come along.

On Saturday, at Wellington, two men who had been found sleeping in the Botanical Gardens were charged wich vagrancy. The men informed hie Worship that they had no money, aud being unable to (md work had sold their clothes for food. Mr Martin said he could not send the men to gaol merely for sleeping in a public reserve. The police had nothing against them, and they must sleep somewhere. Our Wellington correspondent writee :— "It is necessary to repeat that the prospects of the workless unemployed here are of the most dismal kind, and however evil a man's fortune may be he wilt not better it by seeking employment here if he be friendless. Yet they do come, as witness this pitiful story from this evening's paper :—Two young man, named Thos. Wilson and Geo. Wataon, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day (Tuesday) to a charge of having stowed away on the Mararoa for the passage from Lyttelton to this port. They said that they had walked from the Bluff to Lyttelton, looking for work but in vain. At Lyttelton the police told them if they did not leave the town they would be regarded as vagrants, and would probably get three months' imprisonment. So they went on board the Mararoa. They had not a penny nor a change of clothes. Mr Martin, S.M., convicted them and discharged them." (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) V^ AUCKLAND, May 28. The Charitable Aid Board decided to aid a deputation that approached them on the question of erecting a night shelter for outcasts. WELLINGTON, May 28. At a meeting of unemployed printers this afternoon, a resolution was carried with the view of removing the impression that work can be found for all unemployed-printers at the Governmeut printing office during the session, and it was further resolved that, " We are anxious to point out that we do not desire to prevent any printer unemployed outside of Wellington obtaining employmeut in the Government printing office, but we strongly object to those persons being led to believe that there will be plenty of work for all and sundry who desire to come along.