THE UNEMPLOYED.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 93, 20 April 1894, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED.

« A deputation of Wellington unemployed waited upon us this morning, and desired that we should remove an impression conveyed by an official application made by the Labour Bureau to tbe Government for employment for 40 to 50 local unemployed. The deputation said that tho unemployed at present in Wellington numbered some 600, and complained that single and other men who come up from the South and go straight to the Premier are sent to employment at Parliament Buildings and elsewhere, while local unemployed con get nothing, and this notwithstanding that there could be found plenty of work for them on the Queen's Drive and similar roods. They also oomplained that married men who have only been in the colony a few weeks are employed before single men who have been here for years and have others dependent on them. One of the deputation stated that while in the Labour Bureau, which they bad repeatedly visited, he heard 138 n&mea of unemployed counted, and about 40 others wore outside. An advertisement elsewhere calls a meeting of unemployed outside the Government Buildings at 2 o'clock on Monday, at which it is proposed to form a deputation to wait npon the Premier and put the straits of the Wellington out-of-works before him. Menantime the Government proposes Ko provide for some men by an extension of the bußh-felling settlement principle, and to provide work for the most necessitous unemployed of the four centres.

Increase of business in the men's olothing and mercery department has oompelled Mr. C. Smith, the cash draper, to move into the more commodious premises adjoining his drapery Bhop on the other side, and lately occupied by Mr. Lindsay, bootmaker. C.S. would remind his customers and the publio generally that he is now holding one of the largest and best assorted stocks of men's and boys olothing and mercery in the colony, and for sterling value no house can approach him.— Adtt.