EMPLOYMENT SOUGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 11

EMPLOYMENT SOUGHT.

LETTERS TO THE MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL'S POSITION. CANNOT INCREASE STAFF. So many letters, making individual applications for assistance in securing employment, have been received by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, that he intimated yesterday it was impossible for him to reply to them. The Mayoress was being inundated with similar correspondence. Some applicants ask for employment in the council's services; others express themselves as feeling sure the Mayor can do something to help them.

"The position is that I cannot do anything for them," said the Mayor. "We are retaining the members of our present staff, but we cannot increase the number. The extra men we engage under the No. 5 scheme are obtained through the Labour Bureau. It was intimated at the last council meeting that the expenditure of mopey saved by the cut then made in sald¥ies would be used for providing employment, but the method of applying that money has not yet been decided."

housing relief workers.

GENEROUS, OFFER MADE. LARGE HOUSE AVAILABLE. A generous offer to provide free of rent for one year a block of flats in St. George's Bay Road, Parnell, for use as a lodging house for single men engaged on relief works was received from Mr. P. S. Gleeson, of Auckland, at a meeting of the board of the Presbyterian Social Service Association last evening. The offer was gladly accepted. The secretary of the association, the Rev. T. Halliday, said last evening that the building contains six flats, three of which were at present occupied. The asociation would have the use of the remaining three, and' if any of the others became vacant before the end of the year on June 30, 1932, they would also be open to the association. There would be eccommodation for about 40 men. It was hoped to have the house ready in about 10 days.