UNEMPLOYED.

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 June 1921, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED.

(To the Editor.) Si fj _Thc time has surely arrived when the officials of our Labour Bureaux stopped advising poor unfortunates to come to the Coast, telling them there is plenty of work at mines, sawmills and railway formation. A large number come over every week from Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury. Some get work; others don’t. Last Thursday ten came over, including two Hindoos, lhe latter •are looked after by their countrymen; Europeans to shift for themselves. Some, after their first pay, left, leaving debt in the town. The last arrivals could not get accommodation; some slept in outhouses and on top of mine boileis. In the morning it w'as reported that one had died, but fortunately he had only fainted

through fatigue and hunger. He had no money. Some men on duty shared their crib with Caem, and that .day they left, not knowing where to go or get a meal. They came from Wellington.—l am, etc., TRUTH. Blackball, June 27.