THE UNEMPLOYED.
THE RELIEF WORKS. MOUNT VICTORIA ROAD. ■ Some idea of popularity to which the Constable Street-Mount Victoria Road will attain during: the height of tho summer was givenVon . Sunday afternoon when a couplo of. hundred' people must have been scattered about the hilltop. -The new road itself was not used, pedestrians preferring to walk along the; sunny ridge of. tho .hill .instead' 'flf/i following' the road, route, where it led along''the shady side of the hill. Further, the road is not inviting in its present halfformed, state, and .the decision to' metal the path will bo appreciated by thoSe who , saw, it on, Sunday. If any members of the''Relief Tund Committee were present on the hill they must have been' struck with the necessity for continuing'the road right up to the signal; station-instead of finishing it off at the spot it has been taken to —about in "a line with Queen Street,' and forming a narrow foot track up to the signal station. The goal of; nine out of every ten who took to the : hill on, Sunday .was-the; signal station.. If : the committee cannot provide sufficient' money to form .the road, right 011 to the station .with an' easy grade they,.could, at'.no very'.heavy expenditure, effect improvements to the old road, which is already in existence, %d which 'commences :just a little to the north, of where the nSw-road terminates. ." ■ Applicants for work invaded the office of the secretary of the Relief Committee in* force yesterday, the total to date being run lip t0'703 'before the afternoon was through". Between, 15. and 20 men who, had recently, arrived, from the country were, sent- to the. right-about as they had not complied with the residential qualifications. ■ ' A new gang of 22 men was signed on yesterday. to commenco on Anderson Park on Thursday. . A,, new. gang of eight, treeplanters . will stf.rt 'at Kelbunio'' Park tomorrow. ' The Mount' Victoria .and Victoria College gangs will change to-morrow,, and Wadestown will change on. Thursday. - SUBSCRIPTIONS. ' .. . .' The subscriptions received up to yesterday. afternoon, totalled" £1731 Bs. Id!, . against .which- roughly-£7oo,has been:paid out. Another : £300 wilj 'be paid <Hit:in wages be- : 'tween this evening and 1 the end of the neek. The only subscriptions received yesterday was. £r.from;St.'''Matthew's Anglican: Church, 1 Makara.. ':-V ''';■■■' ""THE ONLY SOLUTION OP THE QUESTION." ; ~ : (By Tolceraph.—Press Association.) 1 ; ' Christqliurch,; August 9..-. The [conference; of. representatives, of the Industrjal.'Askiciation, of; Trades set .up to, consider''a ~solution' of - the /unemployment, question .held , another :'- meeting • to-night, when';;the:',representatives .of the. Trades' Council brought . up" the 'council's resolution on the subject, declaring that the only 'solu-tion-of the question was the nationalisation of the,instruments; of production, distribution, ;and.' exchange." .The association representatives stated'that their, association was ;a non-politicalbody, . and. <to / discuss , the matter from the- political ■ standpoint,wijuld be outside;'tlw ■ policy the association/ . It, was .eventually''resolved: "That this conferonce cannot .see'its way -to 1 discuss'tho : Subject. ofunemployment except from a political standpoint. It was further agreed to. ask the association ito. instruct. its. delegates. on. tho Trades'; Council's ...resolution,' The , representatives v of :the;;'c6uricil expressed the hope that , the : association would widen the scopo of;ths-order:'of:inference, so. that the'sUbject would' bdlvgone'into'.'thoroughly. ; :v
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 582, 10 August 1909, Page 6
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524THE UNEMPLOYED. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 582, 10 August 1909, Page 6
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