The Unemployed.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 9 April 1895, Page 2

The Unemployed.

Wellington, April 6. The Government has adopted a large and comprehensive scheme which it is believed will absorb the whole of the deserving unemployed of the colony. The scheme, which will involve considerable expenditure, is to be put into operation forthwith. t m It is proposed to proceed with important road works between Auckland and Taranaki, including the Stratford Road, on the adapted system of partial time, allotting men sections for settlement of their families in the vicinity. The Stratford Eoad for instance will be cleared 10 chains in readiness for settlement. Other extensive road works are to be inaugurated between Wellington and Napier and in the South Island, and improvement and roading of Crown lands is to be gone on with on this principle, wherever suitable blocks are available, preference being given to married men, who will settle at once with their families upon sections which are allotted them and which they will improve. The timber on the various blocks is to be utilised by the erection of Government sawmills and cutting out of blocks for the supply of timber to Home and Australian markets in view of the improved demand now existing, mills and works generally being conducted as far as possible on # tbe co-operative system. This scheme is said to be the outcome of the visit the Minister of Labor paid to similiar settlements and works in the neighboring colonies last year.