UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19273, 11 June 1926, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT

SITUATION AT PALMERSTON NORTH [Per United Press Association.] PALMERSTON NORTH, June 11. A meeting was held this morning at the request of the Prime Minister, Mr Nash, M.P., presiding, to consider means of relieving he unemployment position locally, which is very acute. The Labor Inspector reported that there were in town 135 married men, with dependents totalling 438, out of work, as well as thirty-seven single men. Of those totals there were thirty distressed cases, affecting 123 dependents. After discussion on local measures for relieving the position, a committee was set up to find employment in town and select deserving cases for engagement. • It was decided to send the following resolution to Mr Coates: —“That we view with alarm the amount of unemployment in Palmerston North, and consider that, as the railway works here have been commenced and constitute a work of productive nature, the remedy is easily available by providing more work on the deviation, in order to absorb ns far as possible all local unemployed.”