THE UNEMPLOYED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VII, Issue 1265, 24 March 1886, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYED.

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CHRISTCHUECH. March 22.

IfcftpJylJP t|)o Mayor, the Minister for Pnblio Works telegraphs that he is making inquiries as-taiartber provision for the nnemplo£eg v , jA. petition is beiDg circulated liere praying Government lo find employment for all the married men. ••"» t, 1 m -jr, £ ,-,P.lJ]roW- f J&ktfcb 22. Tlie 'majority of the. men employed on tbe relief works bave struck, owirg to the action of the Government in reducing the pay from 4s 6d to 4s per day, They waited on tbe Mayor thia morning in fornaidabie nfembeiW, and a rather stormy interview resulted, tbe men showing no disposition to yield. "The Mayor, after many interruptions, departed, saying, " 1 will »bid: you ; good niorniug, gentlemen ; yon may fight your own battles." Some of tfce eoanciljtorf then addressed them, prging them to go to work, and representing that tbe works committee this evening would recommend ; the Cfyy Council to pay tbe extra 6d per day deducted by the Government. The .pen, however,, stuck to their resolution'; and' even induced a few who had, remained at work to desist. They *e^efeeteTC n M£' Wm. ftutcbison to send the Government on. tbeir behalf a tolegramof prdteetv ! ; March 23. The unemployed have decided to accept tbe 48 per day^&fl^^dy^evetpl city councillors having promised to endeavor to have another 6d s er day added^ Messrs < W ? ( &ent, J; parkins, H. P. Smith, H.S. Baunders, and J. Thomas have been appointed; to be. the Licensing Comiiiittee'fof 'tfgaire. 1 X Messrs Langley brothers,.^ Eawhia sent as the following to-_d£iyj— " Telephone communication open here to-day. Eawhia people bbdA mah^B^ -„, ,^. The matclf y Oeo v. Haweva (Becond) is being played, to-day. In the^r, first innmg% I Qe6'nia^« J fi3, but l^st? reports stated that Hawera wickets were -tumbling quickly, and thatii^a^doUbtiul whether the Oeo total would be reached.