UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19939, 5 November 1926, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT.

POSITION IN CHRISTCHURCH. PROVISION FOR THE FUTURE. (Special to Dailx Times.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 4. ' The final meeting of the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee was held to-day. Air A. E. Waite, chief clerk of the Labour Department, Wellington, said tha' in Wellington the department was concerned with what was going to be done next year. The idea was to try and balan' the flow of immigrants by bringing them into the country at times when they were most required. The details of the scheme had not been worked out, but the object was to bring in more men of the trades that wanted men, and fewer men of trades that did not want men. It was decided that a sum not exceeding ±iloj from the credit balance of £177 16s Id be expended in providing relief employment in necessitous cases. A sub-committee being set up <o select the men. The following recommendations of the executive were adopted: “That the Government, local bodies, business firms, and others employing unskilled labour, should confine their activities in the summer months to necessary work with the regular staffs only, and prosecute with vigour during the winter months works which would absorb asual labour. “That the mayor be asked to convene a conference of representatives of local bodies and all others interested in and around Christchurch -/ith a view to the discussion of a policy to be pursued in the future in regard to the unemployment problem.” ‘ DUNEDIN’S UNEMPLOYED. WORK FOR 88 MEN. The roll of unemployed at the Labour Department now stands at 234; five fresh applications being made for work yesterday. Fifty men are to be sent to Portobello on Monday, and another 38 will be selected for the Hawkdun * irrigation scheme.