STRATHTAIERI RAILWAY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 897, 27 June 1879, Page 3

STRATHTAIERI RAILWAY.

The following correspondence relative to the above baa been published Dunedin, June 20, 1879. Large numbers of working men out of employment Mr Blair informs me that the second section of Otago Central Railway is ready, and only waits instructions from you to make a start. May I ask you to advise Engineer immediately, and relieve labor market. Most urgent. Henry J. Walter lion. James Macandrew, Wellington. Wellington-, June 20, 1879. Regret to learn that there are unemployed in Dunedin. I have directed Engineer in charge to commence second section of Strath Taien line by piece work to be let to small gangs of men ; and it there is any available land in the neighborhood of railway works suitable for small homesteads of few acres each, f have requested «ame to be indicated to Minister of Lands (Hon. Mr Stout), who will no doubt give directions to have allotments surveyed at once and placed at disposal of such of the unemplyoyed as may choose to form homes for themselves on suitable terms. J. Macandrew. His 'Worship the Mayor of Dunedin. The Starsaysthat the Minister of Works has telegraphed to Blair ito put in hand at once the second section of the Otago Central Railway. The instructions have leen anticipated by the department, and the work is so far advanced as to enable unemployed men to be taken on this week. The section on which it is proposed to employ them adjoins the Wingatui contract. It extends down Mullocky Gully and up the Taieri three or four miles, or as far as required. As has been done on Waikouaiti section, the Government will give piecework.