UNEMPLOYMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1927, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

POSITION AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Per Preus Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 21. Yesterday’s registrations numbered 27: of this total 11 are married. Two men were found private employment. Yesterday 120 men were selected to start work to-morrow morning, replacing 100 men who have had a fortnight’s work under the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee. The increasing number of men who are registering at the Employment Branch of the Labour Department is due, in some measure to the fact that all the freezing works have closed down completely. The majority of the married men who have registered have been assisted by the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee, but the fairly numerous body of single men have not been so fortunate. The work available for them is chiefly on Government relief works. FLOCKING TO WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, July 22. The Mayor’s fund for the unemployed which was started with the objective of £4OOO has reached over £6500, but notwithstanding the fact that hundreds of men were given work, the number of alleged unemployed is greater than ever. Yesterday, 170 more names were given in. The inference is that outsiders are flocking into Wellington in the hope of sharing in the fund, or that men on casual jobs are throwing them up to procure more permanent billets on relief works.