Christchurch Unemployed. AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1894, Page 2

Christ church Unemployed. AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.

I By Telegraph. I I UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. I Chuistchwbch, 10th April. A meeting to consider the unemployed question was held tonight. Abont 100 persons were present, including tho local M.H.R.'a. The Mayor presided. ' A report brought np by a committee appointed at a previous meeting showed that 255 persons had signed as out of work, and of those 27 had been struck off as owning proporty. The following resolution was passed :— " That tho Mayor be requested to communicate with tho Government by tolograph, urging them— (l) to give £ for £to the local bodies in this provincial diatriot to enable them to put relief works into immediate operation ; (2) to establish the allotment system near Christoburoh and the princ.pil towns in" Canterbury; (3) to establish a State farm, or more than one, in Canterbury; and (4) that instructions be given to tho various departments of the Public Service to Btop any Government employe's from working overtime, especially in the railway work-, shops, with a view to tho absorption of the present utiem ployed." The meeting adjournod for a wock to await a reply.