UNEMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13942, 30 June 1909, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT.

I / AT RAILWAY WORK. P, Per Press Association. f WELLINGTON, June 29. I In respect to the telegram from MasW' terton the Public Works Department K ,s*ys that- tho engineer in charge of the fc Stratford - Whangamomona railway i" works was instructed to take on 100 ¥■' men at the rate of twenty per week, jr". and employ them on the co-operative ft - principle at rates at which an ableSf' bodied man working at normal capaceC fty would he able to earn eijzht shilg£ lings a day. Already 600 men arc on t\ the works. jL/ FINDING WORK. K' June 29. W&i' xhe cnaJsnaar of the Tramway Board Bk proposes to start two of the extensions Erthat w e re recently authorised in order Slto find work for the unemployed. The to be pat in hand will be fLWindmill" Road and North St .Albans. K" Despite tlie numbers of men being |* found work by the Department of Lafcbour, there still remain a number of let men looking; for work in or about the fceifcv. Between twenty and thirty of I", these formed themselves into a depi-

tation and waited on the Mayor today. In reply, the Mayor cited th<* decision of the Council arrived at last evening, to employ one half of the men for one week and the other half next week. He added that the work provided by the Council for the »:neniployed was involving an expenditure )t £SOO per month over and above the Council's ordinary expenditure. This was apart from the subsidy from the Hvman Marks Trust, and was allowing for broken time. During the past two or three years it had lice 1 * struggle for the Council to keen w'th-n its authorised overdraft. At jro-'ri'. the district fund account was overdrawn to the extent of £23.887. _La,t year's rates had amounted to £4.3,000, and there was still three-fourths of the municipal year to come. In addition several other accounts were overdrawn, and if the debentures in connection with the loans authorised in respect of these accounts were not sold, the district fund would have to be responsible for the expenditure incurred. "When times improved the debentures would be sold at the rate authorised, but lithe meantime works had to be financed as indicated.