THE UNEMPLOYED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10416, 19 July 1895, Page 3

THE UNEMPLOYED.

&r G. P. Farquhar, hon. treasurer oE the unemployed workmen's relief fund, has received the following further subscriptions:— Per Mr Arthur: Traffic department, £52 13s Id ; maintenance do, £46 14s 9d ;—total, £99 8s ld. Per Mr A. G Melville: The cyclists of Dm,edin. £10 6s. Dunediu Orchestral Society, £39 14* 9d; John street Baptist Church, 10*;W. Wood, £1 ; employees ot W. Wood, £3 10*; L-ith Lodge, 1.0 O.F .£3 6s 6d. _ Large numbers of unemployed men are flocking into Christchurch in the hope of participating in the winter work fund. Tbe Mayor (Mr Cooper) has giveu them to understand taat worl: will only be jjiven to bona, fide rcs;dents. Under the circum^tunces he has offered to give strangers a week's work on condition tbat they leave the city at (he end of that time. Over 50 men bave accepted tht* offer and started to work yesterday. Over 200 local uuemoiojed are asking ior work. An Invercargill telegram states that the Southland Charitable Aid Board received a telegram from the Premier no the effect that grauts from local bodies received pound for pound subsidy, but the subsidies are not payable unless the money is handed over unconditionally to the Charitable Aid Board, who are responsible for the expenditure. The Government cannot counti>n»nce the handing over of moneys to charitable aid boards for the purpose of extracting subsidies for works to be done for local bodies. The expenditure of the money must be purely for the benefit of charitable purposes. As the InvercargiU Borough Council had granted £200 for the relief of the unemployed to the Charitable Aid Board on condition that that sum and the subsidy was spent on public works in the municipality, they having to superintend, which the Charitable Aid Board havo not, the efiect of the Premier's telegram will be the stoppage of all such work on Saturday night, when the council's contribution will be exhausted.