AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

UNEMPLOYED IMMIGRANTS. POSITION MUCH EXAGGERATED. Proas Association —By Tolograph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 7. Referring to tho Labour Council’s cablegram tb Mr MacDonald, Sir George Fuller said that it avhs misleading and untrue. The records of the department showed only 98 immigrants registered on the books for employment in the past throe months. These rvere mostly unskilled workers, avlio came out either on their own initiative or under tho nominated system. The Government funds had ahvays boon, and still were, available for destitute families, Avhile help Avas obtainable from other sources for all persons in need. A cable message from Sydney on Saturday said : “Under the auspices of the Labour Council tho unemployed have sent toe folloAving cable to Mr Ramsay MacDonald:—“A mass meeting of the unemployed decided to cable to you to furnish funds for 1000 British immigrants who are destitute in this State. No local help is obtainable. The position is desperate. CAPSIZED BY A SQUALL. TWO LIVES LOST. HOBART, July 7. The ketch (Mystery, Avhile anchored, heeled over during a sauall. Captain Sproulo and his son, who Avcrc sleeping boloAv, Avero drowned. CENSUS RETURNS ANALYSED. MELBOURNE, July 7. Additional details of the census returns' which have been made available show that of Australia’s total population S4i per cent, were bom in the Commonwealth, and 93 per cent, were bom in some x>art of the British Empire. Of the remainder, 22,396 arc Gormans, and 35,224 Chinese.