UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19800, 27 May 1926, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT.

POSITION IN NAPIER. WRONG IMPRESSION REMOVED. (Per United Press ion.) NAPIER, May 26. Unemployed from all parts of New Zealand, including Invercargill, the West Coast, and Auckland, have come to Napier with the mistaken idea that there is plenty of work to be had in this district. These men have seemingly received information through some unknown source which has falsely led them to believe employment can be had here, and consequently the town has been visited by more unemployed than it can cope with. The Public Works Department has' undertaken to put more men on works in the district, but this merely serves to alleviate the position in Napier, without taking account of the men from elsewhere. In consequence, Mr John Mason, M.P. has telegraphed as follows to the Minister of Labour: “The position regarding unemployment here is being rendered more difficult by men coming from various parts of New Zealand who apparently have been told that there is plenty of work going m this district As a matter of fact, work cannot be found to absorb all the unemployed here, and I think it is very desirable that a message should be. if possible, broadcasted through the papers advising men that it is useless travelling from one part of the country to another unless definitely advised through brandies of the Labour Department that work is available in districts to whfch they propose to travel.