THE PREMIER AND THE UNEMPLOYED.
[BV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christohurch, Friday. The Mayor has received the following telegram from the Premier, with reference to the unemployed :—" Your letter, covering resolutions in connection with the unemployed, is to hand. The manner of subsidising local bodies has been determined by Parliament, and the amounts fixed by appropriations. Therefore, there are no appropriations under which effect could be given to the resolutions passed. If principle recommended was affirmed we should have the unemployed difficulty in connection with every local authority in the colony, and I fear that taxpayers would suffer. The Government, consis> tently with the funds at its disposal, is doing tho beat it can to meet the unemployed difficulty, but any expenditure mush be in connection with reproductive wor| only. The Minister of Lands has receive! the necessary authority to go on with thi road works in connection with the Cheviot estate. This will absorb some thirty o« forty of the most pressing cases in your district."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9491, 21 April 1894, Page 5
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166THE PREMIER AND THE UNEMPLOYED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9491, 21 April 1894, Page 5
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