UNEMPLOYMENT DISTRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18601, 8 July 1922, Page 13

UNEMPLOYMENT DISTRESS

■" " • ra , .ia» WELLINGTON SYNOD DlSOTßsis PROBLEM. •-? APPEAL TO CHURCH PBOELEfj^T| CPn Uvnsp Pina ABsocuno».r v~ WELLINGTON; g# Ml The unemployment problem wa*,dfpcu*«N bv the Wellington Diocesan Synoa iordKfii The Rev. T. Feildea Tiylor eaid thlet.tnWS women, and children were BoffomgjgreSU' hardship. He knew <rf many instariOM; which married men with wives andTUtte* ones had been out of work for at »;■- months. During the last four months Jjg , had been doing all he could to gecure WoiK r for unemployed. He thought • iil only be necessary to make an_ appeaf? wx;‘; the church people to secure-their ca*opartSi tion in the relief of the diatresj geeted, firstly, that they the fmid opened by the Mayor, that church members should make' oaef* of half a day or a day’s urnpteymeqtjyy■ cleaning windows, putting tawnsy>-tju|Bfft:| gardens, etc. Thirdly, he suggested abeebyi urgent oases of distress’should to the relieving authorities. TbmWpß at least 700 men out of work ton, and ho believed the the same in Palmerston North. the resolution to apply to the and not merely to the city. If 5. the people offered work some of relief would be afforded. ' ’’ ” •? After discussion, Mr Taylor an addition to his motion to the effect tfejsyfo the Government ;and local bodies .betnigjp';; to set un further relief works, ,andi mPp* further discussion, the motion vras- cajrw in the following form;—“That tros views withdeep sympathy ,the trees caused to manv by nnempteffiaritj and rejoices to see the efforts- whr«i'"W»;-j being made by the Government and {wws-j bodies, and hopes that, more may b9 # (kwg*| in this direction. It also urges v MUri|&rJj members to co-operate as far as posabjeja;, all efforts to relieve such distress.,,’ .Ijrj '*-% Mr Taylor stated that he Mayor was prepared to openteiilidiaj*' relief works if the public ToT i them. “I want to see church memabe*M#W<i rid of a little more’of the morning and hand in their money.” gcsted that church members should pealed to to iricrease the Vicars ■ Poor, Fund. ’ , It was'decided to forwud po%n&s , < resolution to the Prime Minister’ Mayor.