BOGUS UNEMPLOYED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 3

BOGUS UNEMPLOYED.

TO THI BDITOB. Sib,—l venture to express the op&SanflßM every right-minded colonist will tpptcmb «C work* of a productive character being naderi taken for the relief of the unemployed, and! no one, I dare say, wfll feel disposed to Sank; very highly of any person - who waH hg misrepresentation take advantage of aniastito* tion which is intended to alleviate the distaeMi of the truly needy only. Now, Sir, I very much regret to have to believe that H» relief work* syitem should be abased at the rmsemVtime* when hundreds of men are traversing ' the country in quest of employment. I dp not allude to " sundowners"—a class undeserving-of the slightest consideration. It may seem almost incredible, but it is, I fear, only too true, that men (some of whom hare farms of consktaaMa area i» at least two districts), who hare been fee many years, and who still are, in the fanning line, some short time ago at the Dunedin office obtained, as unemployed, bosbielHng on the Government land at Seacliff, to the exdasfoo, of coarse, of some who were truly uuuussltoK applicant*. Indeed I have been told—l do taut that I have been muwformed in the uiat>sv— that one young, robust, single man did not scrap!* to represent himself as a married man with three or four of a familr dependent npon him. He iaat present on relief works a* SeacKff; he is single, strong, healthy, in the prime of life, and the occupier of a section in the Catiins district. Now, if by misrepresentation he secured this employment to the exclusion of the bread-winner of any family in neodful ciieamstanees, then only one view oaa be taken of his unmanly action. Sorely, Sir, the relief works were neser intended for farmers with grown-up families, oe for young men without encumbrance -oeUainly not, while among the applicants for work were to be found the heads of families that an unable honestly to procure the neeesßaaes*el life. Trusting that the position of every smficant for State nlief will in future be most; fofli inquired into before a selection in made,—l am,&c., January 22. trm and Let Lm. ■ SOTAL COLOB& TOBAfiOfc