UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17293, 3 November 1921, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT.

the position in wbluncko* (rasas iiipcunos nragmi,) WELLINGTON, November 2. Man out of work arc still registering thair names with tho employment bureau of tho Government Labour Department, but tho numbers dp not vaij greatly from week to week. At the end of last week the number of nomei on the register totallwl tils, only cught moro than for tho provious week. Most of tlie applicants ure described as l** b °Mnny cases of hardship are continnittst to coma undor the notice of tto Corporation and tho Labour Department authorities, as well as seerctoriis of some of the local unions. Employment on the is oy no. means plentiful. It is stated th*t tho conditions tfaero ore far worse than tlu<y have been for many ye#ri. larly among the mountain country of the South. On tho outbreak of the war he joined with his Territorial unit to form the Manawatu squadron of the Wellington Mounted Hinea, proceedin# with the Main Body to Lgypt and then to Gallipoli. In August, »J® fierce battle on the summit °f Chunu k Bair. he was wounded, losing his sigit, by a bin shell from u British warship Winch fell short. He was hospUal at Walton-on-Thames for some time, suffering from enteric fever aa well a* from his wound. WhUe visited constantly by Sir Af thur P«r son and became his great P* 1 * o ®®; friend, making his homo in London with him. He altenvards took a courw of training at St. Dunstans. hostel for blind soldiers.. Mr Mackenwe founded the "Chronicles of the ( Zealand Expeditionary ?<>*<*> J®? laßt number of which appearea in January, 1919, when the WW™ wound up, although many enthusiaatw requests were received from men WW the editor jhould continue the publication in some other form °n to® return to New Zealand. Incidentally, tnft paper showed how a really badly abtod man could adapt himself to M* work in his strangely altered life. in:' these years Mr Mackenzie much interested in British agncoltiu*. land settlement and trade, and w«a several times aaked to enter the HouiW of Commons, but the c<;st of lmnS England, as well as tlie heavy cost of electioneering, proved a bar theless, he gained much kr.ow.edge m I'xnriicn'f, and a vulunole foundation for future work. Hi- paid a a few weeka to New Zealand M !»»» and returned. final:} - , with Admiral tlie Fleet Viscount Jellieoe, in H.A1.8. New Zealand.