THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12484, 10 March 1909, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION.

USE OP FOREIGN MATERIAL ECONOMICAL PURCHASES. [Press" Association. — Copyright.] London, March P. Though heckled in the House of .Commons concerning the use of Norwegian" granite at the Rosyth Docks instead of Irish or British; Mr Burns, President of the Local Governrri lit Board, refused to grant the Adm. i *".y £30,000, the difference between tho cost of Scandinavian and British grfiiite for the purpose of giving employment. The "Daily Express" reports tlmt Mr Herbert Gladstone, Home Si ere ■ ta'ry, has ordered from French and Belgian firms many thousands of pounds' worth of mailbag canvas, the difference between British and foreign tenders being about a halfpenny ?nr yard.