THE UNEMPLOYED.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2159, 11 July 1895, Page 28

THE UNEMPLOYED.

Wednesday.' The following subscriptions, in addition to those already published, have been received by the committee :— Mr Ward, per Mr Chisholm, £1 ; employees of Mesera W. Wright and Co , £6 lls 6J; J. N. v. J. W. S., 10s. The last meuiioned donation wa< the amount of a wager won in a bit about Toole, the actor. Thursday Subscriptions acknowledged : — E. Cook and postal officiate, £10 10s ; employees of W. Wright and Co , £6 lls 6 1 ; Johu Mill, £5 ; J.N. v. J.W.S. (a wager), 10i. Friday. The Works Committee of the Unemployed Relief Werks Association met at tbe Town H*ll this morning aud selected aboub 20 men to go on the vaiiou3 works, bringing the number employed in town and suburbs up to 280. The list is now eibnusted go far as tbe married men are concerned, and the only n^mes remaining are those of single men. The committee will meet once a week iv futare— viz., on Friday mornings at 10 o'clock — to make further selections of men for the works. Monday. The following aoicuuts were contributed in various town and gubutbm churches on Sunday for the unemployed relief fuad : — Firct Caurch, £15 (half of the total contribution) ; Bible Christians (Girrison HaM), £14 2a ; North-Bist Valley Presbyterian Church, £13 16i 4d ; Leith street Cougiegational Church, £7 7a 6d (Sunday school portion, £2) ; Cavtrsbam Presbyterian Churrh, £7 : tit. Johu's Chcircb, Roilyo, £2 3s 8d ; Rivenebourne Congregational Church, £1 12s 6d. A number of tbe ministers wrote informing Mr Farquhar that the amounts subscribed would have baen larger but for tbe fact that- the people in their churches who were most likely to contribute had already clorc so. The following furthpr si.b<rr*plions were receivsd by Mr Farquhar on JI .nda.y :—Mornington B. rough Council, £25; employees of Cjull«, CuHirg, and Co., £2 lOi ; employees of William Greg,* and Co.. £2 0j 6d. Tuesday. The following additional subscriptions have been .received by the Uiumjjloyed Workmen's Relief Association ; — St Andrew's Church. £16 2s 8i (being tbe 'collection ou Sunday without any deduction) ; Bap'is!; Church, £11 4s 6J (the Rev. A Nurth and friends have already given donations) ; employees ef Michaelia,

Hallenstein, Farqubar (tannery and warehouse), £10 ; Anderson's Bay Presbyterian Church, £8 ; Tablet Printing Company, £7; officers of the Ota go Education Board, £5 7s; New Zealand Bible and Tract Society, £5 5s ; Disciples of Cbriht, £2 15i ; employees of Ashburn HaU, £2 12s ; employee* of Corporation Ga»woiks, £2 10a 6d I a few employees of the Poceuix Company (per John D. Findlay), £1 10s; St. Michael's Church, Anderson's Bay, £1 0s 7d ; citizen, ss.

Chiustchubch, July 9. At a meeting of the coiunaifckee of the winter work fund, the mayor reported that up to the present subscriptions to the amount of £839 had bam received, of whioh £750 had been paid to the Charitable Aid Board to secure the Government subsidy. It wis reported that during last week the number of men employed by the various local bodies waB — Christchurch 133, Sydfcnham 56, St. Albans 26, Heathoote 22, Woolnton 15, Avon 67, makirg a total of 319 without including these employed in Linwood, whence there *as no return. The mayor said that he was satisfied that there were still from 150 to 200 men requiring work, and his idea was that the alternative system should be adopted, and men employed either for three days about or week about. If that were done wages could be raised from 4s to 5s per day. He was sorry to say that at the rate they were expending the money they would soon be at an end of their resources.