THE UNEMPLOYED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14110, 12 July 1909, Page 4

THE UNEMPLOYED.

POSITION IN CHRISTCHUitft IE ~ - —;— v': I WORK FOR PAINTERS. 'i s J •| ■ ■ WORK. FOR [BY TELEGRAM.—FRESS ; ASSOCUr«|^|p Christceurch, Sun&jj I The latest posted list of unemployed aivr S City Council offices has had :aTwnnsj|p 1 names added to it, bringing the totaj | | to '19. Out of these 19 have tocept^;'dl ! II offered to them. ■' 1 1 . The Painters' Union have offered the f3» 1 Council a subsidy of £ for £up to it for painting work put in hand by. ft. | Council during the present period of sladl ness. . This subsidy is in addition toa,r»' 1 vious subsidy granted by the union. :1 Mr. W. Minson,. chairman of the 1 bury. Conciliation' Board, was waited | recently by an unemployed bootmaker, [ had had two or three days' work j . City Council, but who was found j earn the full rate of wages, and was ; to get a permit. The union declined C 8 give him a permit, and he applied t«%:B Minson for one, at the same time Btafe? H that he had a wife and five children, B children being ill with measles. Mr, « sort had intended considering' the man's,p. [f plication to-day, but in the meantime tfo || City Council authorities, on learning o f.j£ \ man's necessitous condition, have taktjH him on at the full rate. , 1

RELIEF AT NAPIER. *■ | I .RELIEF AT [BY telegraph.—PßESS ASSOCIATION] 3 Napießj Saturday. 1 Five married labourers were sent*j| the Labour Department to the s railway works last night. Every effort it 1 being made to . cope with actual eases o{ If distress, and the citizens' fund to provide B supplies of food is being well supported. I The Minister for Public Works hasteki graphed instructing that the lowest tender i for painting the courthouse be accepts 1 immediately, to reduce the ranks of || unemployed painters. s 4;lf| DUNEDIN WORKS. [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN' CORRESPONDED.] Dunedin,. Sunday. Mr. J. F. Arnold, M.P., hasire'ccM a telegram from the -Minister. forHa|jj| in connection with the unemployed, staging that he is making inquiries to see it more men can be put on the Mosgiel tailway duplication 'works, but he ' can on!; go as far *as \ conditions will permit. If extra men are put on, it would oslj bo with the object of getting over the next six or seven weeks. The deviation work is not likely to. be read? in. time to •• be of any use to the preset unemployed.. _