UNEMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13943, 1 July 1909, Page 6

UNEMPLOYMENT.

At weraroa state farm |>l~ * ,Per Press Association. ; . Iv*'. "J'' 5 WELLINGTON, June 30. i^6ddiiet < '&is decided •to have 200 t?acreSofland atWeraroa. State farm. .Thov bnsh was felled many Syears The Htrti. T. Mackenzie of- Agrienlture) says that the £w<jrk.'is:.of.a character can bfe I?dorie by"; anyone with -a. pair of hands, 'v\«irifnjy ?inWflhlft to work, bpt he . does tend .to make' a .benevolent mstiit. Whenput in hand the - employment to a number of men. IN CHRISTCHURCH. |£t *: w _ CHKISTCHCKCH, June 30. . S ; JTfe Mayor told twenty men to-day , |s?thkfc nothing further could be done till City Coirncil met again. Speaking a teporter, he said that many resti^entß' froold gjtye gardening work, but the > consequence under ~ the preferring- to give the work to a §Seantracfor> : who took'att risks. *" Mr Dobson, city surveyor, says that "—most of the men. now on relief work s'art?"worth Bs. a day. The men will be for a "week, and then give 2-lJace to others. Thus employment will -given to the greater- number of -.men. Two hnisdred and eleven., are on k the ConncQ'g lists, and fifty will .be i: employed 'every■■■ week for four weeks r ;Jbefcre the-first employed; men go on -•again ■ : Fifteen men. will go .to rail--s" <w«y -works to-morrow. Ten go to-mor-Wanganui for bnshfelling work, \and several more next week. <T-