LOCATION OF FLAX DRESSERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1189, 5 September 1867, Page 3

LOCATION OF FLAX DRESSERS.

We understand that it is proposed to send one or more of the groups of persons to whom hackles aro being supplied, to Waiuku, to cut and dress the flax growing in that neighbourhood. TV o Strongly object to such a place, it is well known that- tuere are men in the neighbourhood of Waiuku as much in need of work and assistance as any persons in Auckland, and it certainly would bo mosj; unwise to take' a number of unemployed from Auckland to earn a living by cutting and dressing flax growing at the doors of the unemployed at Waiuku. • Let these latter be assisted and put in the way of cutting and dressing the flax growing in their neighbourhood, and let the Auckland men be sent to places where they will aot come in competition with unemployed in other places. This ought to be a standard practice of the Flax Hacklo Benovolent Society. There aro flax fields open to them to which our objections do not apply. Again, Waiuku is a long distance from Auckland, and the men supplied with hacklcs by the society should work on the flax fields nearest to Auckland, and so gradually proceed further in the country as they work the flax growing up near this town. Besides, a step of the kind we are opposing would naturally put a check on local effort to aid the unemployed to get; a living by turning the raw flax growing in their neighbourhood into a marketable commodity, and so virtually prevent an extension of the verv thing the Hackling Society was formed for doing in localities near Auckland.