LABOUR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13660, 31 July 1908, Page 5

LABOUR

CHRISTCHURCH SOUP KITCHEN.

Per Press Association.

CHRISTCHURCH, JuLy 30.

The Salvation Army's, soup .kitchen was opened to-day for the alleviation of the unemployed. .■ A strong force ■of aimy officers and members was ready to serve out food at 11 o'clock. At 11.30 no applicants had appeared, bub at . that time a boy came with a message that his mother had five young children, that his father had been "outi of work.nine,weeks, and had 10s a week rent to pay, and would be glad of soup and bread to save .the, children from hunger. ; The husband had got work now With- the • City Council, and the relief' asked' for would be only temporary. The boy was supplied, withbread:and soup, and given an- order on a butcher for-meat. At 12 there being no further callers, the kitchen was closed.. The Brigadier says that there'is not anything like the distress\the agitators make out; still there are deserving cases, -and these the Army will relieve.- ; The back -of the "unemployed difficulty seeihs-.to have been broken. . Tlitre are no meetings in the square and the number ■of - applicants for work at the Labour Office has gone, back to normal. This morning twenty-one men left ' for. Broken: River out of twenty-two who' had been supplied with passes. The Department has placed altogether over 100 men on the:-Midland railway works during the past few weeks: " r . j . The-26 men-out of work at Kaiapoi, according to statements made oiyTueaday, has been practically reduced to a cipher. ,