UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUCKLAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 March 1929, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT IN AUCKLAND

.MEN SLEEPING OUT

(By Telegraph—Special to "The Mail")

AUCKLAND, 28th March. So acute is the distress in Auckland as the result of unemployment that many people are sleeping in the open. Efforts are to be made to relieve the position and the Auckland City Mission has decided to organise a night shelter on similar lines to that run last year. The Rev. ; Jasper Calder, city missioned said there had riot been quite the improvement in the unemployment position that social workers had anticipated. Men were still sleeping out, and shelter was being arranged toi assist them. It had been hoped that shelter would not be necessary this year, but the position was sufficiently serious to warrant its re-establishment. He estimated that there were well over 1000 men-out of work in Auckland at the present time. Of this number 75 per cent, of the men were capable of and most willing to do hard work, although most of j them were clerks, salesmen, stbremen, etc., and were not accustomed to it.