WORKLESS MEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 8

WORKLESS MEN

POSiTION IN WHANGAREI APPEAL TO CITIZENS ‘ (From Our Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, To-day. At a meeting of citizens held yesterday evening to discuss ways and means of dealing with the unemployment situation in Whangarei, Mr. L. J. Brake, explained it had been convened by resolution of the Borough Council, which had been unable to cope "with the crisis with the funds at its disposal, and it was now calling on the citizens for assistance. Seventy-four men were registered as totally unemployed and it is safe to assume that there was an equal number which did not care to parade the fact. In addi-

tion, casuals were coming and going daily. During the past month men had been coming to him daily, men with as many as nine children. The Government had failed in its duty and the citizens of the town must therefore, as far as lay in their power, provide the men with the wherewithal with which to keep body and soul together. AT Mr / Yf- kelson then moved, and Mr. A. M. Rust seconded, that a beautifying society be formed to assist in employing idle workers, such funds to be used in accordance' with the rules laid down by the Public Works Department. _ vT he - motion was carried, and the following were elected to an executive committee: Mesdames R. G. Foote and Fo ® ter , Rev. H. Steele and Messrs. J. Jackson, A\ . A. Carruth, G. W Bennett A. H. Curtis, L. J. Brake " a “ Beth ell, junr., W. Nelson, A. M RuJ' £ £ovatt KeUy ' R " G ’ £ tary and MvfcL''LGrangl