EMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13658, 29 July 1908, Page 4

EMPLOYMENT.

A tetter- appearing in this issue over tihi eignatittrt of' " Farmer,'' does; ;f Ar mord credit to. the llearU than to the head of tho iVritei-. H* is to ba comhiended for his solicitude about the scarcity of omit ployment of which he claims to have. had oOular demonstration, but we fancy tha| siimeboay .was having a joke at his <a? pSnse when he was assured that (lieedjr workers t|e old' surf-boats, to keep their; wives'»aiid children frbm aj&ryaiabu. ing to believe fcjsiff of that govt, «tspeciiall# in; face of ilie offers of employment wfccfi come irom all quarters of the colony. Thfc Minister for Public Works -wants men? Southland is asking for them; th(j -firhrt and stations in South , Canterbury: bay* asked for them. It would be better for Timaru if' full employment for a large-po-pulation could be provided in the town, but if the work is not here, it does not appear the'most sensible thing for men to stop about (the wharf earning at the mosfy according io a correspondent who : :M'rofc4> to lis • yesterday, £4 10a in a month?f|W4 "find themselves") when better mdiiej? }i' to be made elsewhere. Things,fitife made worse instead of better by mistaken philanthropists who write letters about starving men gathering barnacles when all tho time they should be encouraged to gather sovereigns -wheresmoney*is td ;; bfl iuß»- ;