AUCKLAND UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 253, 18 July 1908, Page 5

AUCKLAND UNEMPLOYED.

.t. • 9' '■ • . (BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; Auckland, July 17. In connection with the deputation > from \ ;the unemployed that waited upon-the Mayor 'of Auckland; a communication was fonvarded to tlio Government, and to this the following - 'reply was received by Mr. A. M. "Myers this 'morning from tlio Prime Minister (Sir Josoph .Ward)" Thoro is room for a number of men on'various railway lines in the nortll, and the Minister for Public Works will give authority to put them on." (DI TBLKGEArn.—SPECUIi OORnESrOJfDENT.) . . Auckland, July 17.: Sixteen men registered thoir names for em-' ployment at the Labour Bureau yesterday, bringing tlio total number registered during the week up to 118. Out of this number, the Department has already found employment for over 60, 50 of whom have been dispatchod • to Hukorenui and Wayby to bo . placed on tho . railway construction works at theso places. In referring to the question at the meeting of tho" City Council last night, tho Mayor (Mr. M., Myors) stated that he had asked the City Engineer to consider favourably tho pro- -; ' posal to put a larger number of men on tho works, but was informed that it was not practicable to increase tho number of workmen employed at tho present time owing to several of tho works in hand requiring skilled men. Other works could not bo nrooeoded with on account of the unfavourable weather.

FREEHOLD BUSINESS SITES. Messrs. T. Kennedy Jfacdonald, Limited, will sell, under instructions from the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, Ltd., on Monday next, July 20, in their. Exchange Land :ifart, at 2.30 oVilook p.m.,.^freehold'building seotiona situate on Thorndon Quay, .comprising twenty having frontages ranging from 33ft. by depths ranging to 117 ft. The sections ore well kuown as adjoining tho company's railway station and surrounded by warehouses and fac- . Tory buildings. The torms of sale announced are liberal. Lithographic plana can' be obtained from the auctioneers.