UNEMPLOYMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 14

UNEMPLOYMENT.

Sir, —I am one of the many now on the list of unemployment. I can do almost anything and I {an truthfully stfeto that never in my life have 1 worked for anyone who has not been fully satisfied with iny services. ■My testimonials speak for ine in that respect. Lately I have been employed by the Government, tree-plant-ing at Maramarua. Everything there was not. "beer and skittles," as those who have been there will know. Still we had employment while there and we had to put up with it, especially the married men, for our wives and kiddies' sakes. Our wages were 14s per day and we earned every penny of it too. Without notice, however, we got paid off, a certain number of permanent men being retained, all good men, too, as far as toilers go. But was it a fair thing, do you think, to keep nearly 80 per cent, single men, 10 of whom were Maoris? Surely the married men should have had the preference. _lf our Government was doing the right thing by us they would have kept us on too. Since leaving there I have tried to get employment on farms and also on road work, but without success. To-day I tried to get a job on a public works road job, but the man in the office informed ine that he had got his 50 men. Wo hear of all the different public works jobs which are either v ?oing on or are about to bo gone on with. If any of your readers could inform us where wo could get on to these jobs we would be much obliged. Fair Plat.