WORK AND WAGES.
SYDNEY, May ».
The Executive of the Pastoralists’ Union declare that there is no fear of any serious interference with shearing operations next season.
[Special to Press Association.]
NEW YORK, May 8,
The Spanish Government have ottered an American syndicate £4,000 per month if they will undertake railway construction work in Cuba to absorb the unemployed on the island.
Having been interviewed at the Oamaru station yesterday by a deputation representing seventy of the unemployed, the Minister of Lands said he was sorry to see so many men out of employment and to hear of the distress in the district. The Government were, however, doing all they could for the unemployed, and ha had arranged for some work that would, lie hoped, relieve their immediate wants. He had arranged that fourteen or fifteen of them should be selected for the Olago Central, that the number for Galatea (thirty - five miles north of Rotorua) would be increased from five to probably fifteen, and the road works on the Maerewlienua Bortou’s Estate—would be put in band in ten days, and all Lire men wanted for that work would he drawn from the unemployed of Oamaru. He trusted (bat that would relieve the pressure, and said the Government would do all (bey could for them.
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Evening Star, Issue 9701, 9 May 1895, Page 2
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