UNEMPLOYED BELIEF COMMITTEE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 11049, 29 August 1896, Page 6

UNEMPLOYED BELIEF COMMITTEE.

The Citizens’ Unemployed Relief. Cora* mittee met at the City Council Chambers; at 3 p.m. yesterday; present—-His Worship, the Mayor (chairman), Messrs W. H. Cooper, C. Hood Williams, C. Burgess, B. Early, J. Burgess (secretary) and Mn Blake. The Chairman said, that the amount now in hand was .£3B 15s Sd. This included the sum of £7 collected at the Lyttelton Times Office, £2 2s collected by Mr Cooper and .£3 7s collected' by Mrs Blake.

Mr Cooper said the amount in hand would be sufficient to pay the men’s wages for this week.

The Secretary said that the Salvation Army Rad collected £6, which would be forwarded that day. He read letters from St Luke’s Church and the Baptist Tabernacle, stating that they .could not deyoto the takings on any Sunday to the Relic.!', Fund, members of the congregations having] in many cases subscribed through other sources. The Durham' Street Wesleyan Church would take up a retiring collection' on Sunday, Sept. 6.. On the motion of Mr Cooper, seconded by Mr Burgess, it was resolved that the whole of the men now employed by the Relief Committee should be discharged on Saturday night, and when the suhskly from the Government arrived a fresh lot of men should be employed. Mr Cooper said twenty men had been employed in the North Park. They had finished and touched up about seven miles of footpath, and Mr Taylor, the head gardener at the public gardens, wiis perfectly satisfied with; the work done by the men. Some of the men had been taken to do work in the South Park.

The Committee then adjourned till] Friday next.