THE UNEMPLOYED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 199, 23 July 1926, Page 8

THE UNEMPLOYED.

POSITION IN AUCKLAND. DEVONPORT TO SPEND £20,000. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 22. The State Advances Department has granted the Devonport Borough Council £20,000 for expenditure on urgent works for unemployment relief. Married men resident in the borough will have first preference, and single men with dependants will come next. During the week a bureau was opened at the Trades Hall, and 300 unemployed women, 90 per cent of them New Zealand born, registered there. Some had been out of work for 18 months or more. Recently the registration was taken over by the Labour Department. Of 105 applicants, 37 have been offered employment. Many seek work by the day because their husbands are unemployed. There are 662 men on the department’s books, and 19 have been placed in work since yesterday. The special bureau for female labour which was set up early in the month has been used to a fair extent by these workers, and employers have also made use of it. Although so many women and girls are out of work the supply of efficient domestic helps is still considerably below the demand. Many of those who apply for positions are averse to taking on “anything so common as housework,” and many of those who are willing to do so are unsuited to the work. Girls about 15 years of ago who are seeking work in factories figure prominently on the list. A number of shop and office hands are also disengaged.

CHRISTCHURCH RELIEF FUND. CHRISTCHURCH, July 22. Public subscriptions to the unemployment fund organised by the Citizens’ Committee naving now reached £2019, the subsidy of £2OOO granted by the City Council lias been fully earned, making a total of £4019 thus available for relief of unemployment in the city.'