UNEMPLOYMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13958, 19 July 1909, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT.

EASING A LITTLE.

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, July 18. During tho past week 223 unemployed have registered their names at the Auckland Office of tho Labour Department, 75 boing married men (with 2CO persons dependent upon them) and 148 being single. The number is less than during some previous weeks when as many as 300 signed tho book. During last week 37 were sent to work by the Department, 20 being despatched to the Gisborno railway works, whilst 17 were sent to private employment. CITIZENS TO THE RESCUE. CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. There aro many indications that tho present congested condition of tho labour market will bo speedily relioved, as a number of private' employers are coming forward, and offering casual work. Tho offers aro being readily accepted.

The Cliristchurcli Hospital yesterday signed a contract for tho erection of buildings at a cost of £13,000;, and as the foundations will ho put in hand immediately, a, good deal of labnuc. should ho absorbed. Many other building contracts have boon let a;id it seems that the long lane renc-hod has a, turning "for the majority of tho unemployed. This morning tlio Mayor received tho following message from tho Hon. J. Carroll, acting-Prime Minister, in rewly to an enquiry relative to the granting of Government subsidies on relief funds raised for unemployed:—"Tho Government arc not contributing tr> any municipal work, either in Wellington or elsewhere. Private subscriptions aro subsidised only when the expenditure on national work is approved."