GOVERNMENT LABOR EXCHANGE.

Evening Star, Issue 7181, 7 April 1887, Page 2

GOVERNMENT LABOR EXCHANGE.

An adjourned meeting of the Government Labor Exchange was held at the Waste Land Board Office this morning, and was attended by Dr Hislop (chairman), Hon. W. H. Reynolds, Messrs R. B. Martin, E. R. Ussher, J. Logan, J. P. Maitland, and O. Allan (secretary). The Chairman said that, according to appointment, he met Mr Colin Allan on Tuesday, and they had agreed on certain forms for submission to this meeting. Firstly, it was proposed to print 4,000 application forms for employment, to be sent to the principal post offices in the provincial district; secondly, to print 1,000 posters informing the public of the Labor Exchange; next, to print 2,000 circulars to employers of labor in the provincial district. The circulars, etc., were approved of, and it was resolved that the Board of Advice should meet on every alternate Thursday at 11 a.m. Mr Ussher urged that some investigation should be made into the claims of those seeking employment, otherwise some very undeserving people would apply to the Exchange. From his past experience as District Engineer he knew that men had represented themselves as married men with families in distressed circumstances, and in many cases they had subsequently* proved not to be married at all. Tho police might be communicated with occasionally. The Hon. Mr Reynolds : The police will be instructed to give every facility to the Board of Advice. lam very much pleased at the interest the members of the Board appear to be taking in this matter, and I feel thoroughly satisfied that in a very short time their efforts will prove very successful; and that they will relievo the Government to a great extent of the pressure now brought on them by the unemployed. There will also bo a large saving to the Colony. I hope that the thing will work harmoniously. I feci convinced that the Government will afford the Board every assistance they may require. ; The meeting then adjourned. The following circular addressed by the chairman to employers of labor explains the object of the Exchange:— A Board of Advice under the auspices of the Government was appointed on Ist April inst in connection with the Labor Exchange already in existence in the Immigration Office, Dunedin, with a view to extend its usefulness as a medium between employers of labor and the working classes in the provincial districts of Otago and Southland. The Board is strongly impressed with the idea that if farmers, runholders, mining companies, county councils, and other employers of labor interested themselves n employing such . labor as they required from time to time through means of the Exchange, the rates of wages would be equalised, a larger number of men would be employed, and the cry of the unemployed, so damaging to the good name of the Colony, would to a considerable extent be stopped, I take the liberty, therefore, of appealing to you for yeur assistance and support in rendering the Exchange a success, and nothing shall be wanting on the part of the Board and its secretary (Ur Colin Allan) to promptly meet your requirements as they arise.