UNEMPLOYMENT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18456, 10 August 1925, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT.

IK- ASSISTANCE STILL g; NECESSARY.. jjj EX-SOLDIER'S position. B% | (Hring to the break the weather, r K employed on the relief work on V -j&B river banks only put in four days F -"-Ijiat week. A fairly large proportion of V" ffl® o wUI 1)0 confcinued on the Work - liSiit week. - ''i Saturday the labour Department r -&A 103 men on the books as compared 189 on the Ist inst—a difference ■ !WW It >» probable that all these .•'jfttte not secured employment as in ' ,J#ms cases men fail to re-register. On ! igtoday one man registered--with the T and five at the City Coun- j : ;M Chambers. e _ _ ' secretary of the Citizens' unw vamrJrtvment Fund (Mr R.. B. Owen) i" 1 iSUtes that, generally, the position in ' |obeefc of finding work for the unemhas not altered much during the «3t week, and there is every necessity much assistance as possible be}i®:given. - About sixty returned sol- > ' who Jiave. been provided with 1 ' hotJ.lrom the process of Poppy Day, IrtjeTttely to como on the committee's F : 4tibd as the Poppy Day money was alf 1 exhausted. He had been ini -JScmed thab the Public Works DeoartffijEwt had got pfraetically all the men l&nired for the work on Dyer's" Pass <|||d. Two or three more men (re* soldiers) could be put on the ipy W ork at the Morton Settlement. V- Help That Is Appreciated. islr H. "Wbrrall, secretary of the iCfeneral Labourers' Union, and a memW 0 f the Citizens' Unemployment flOtnmittee told a reporter on. Satur- < My that probably as a result of the irablicity given as to the state of the r/* &r market, and the manner in if ' Swch the necessities of those out of ?■ -wtitik had beA made public, he had ' had niore calls than usual for labour from those Who, in order to relieve the Sjsitibn, were apparently making Jobs, e added that this action was much appreciated. S* - From noon on Friday until noon on - Saturday, subscriptions totalling £63 18s'ld were received for the unemploy- ' rneni fundi making the total to date, £846 9s sa. :