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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1977, 4 March 1893, Page 3

It is sfatcd thifc on Saturday last no lws than £830 was paid to the mon at the Belfast freezing \VOlk3 (Ohristchureh) for the fortnight's wages. That is exactly what we want here or something like it ; something that will bring back tho life and buoyancy that seem to have begun and ended, or very nearly so, with the golden days iv th* district. No one will for a moment hold that (In district is incapable of furnishing a local industry of some kind if only tho rcquisito enterprise wore forthcoming. Even the half of £830 circulating fortnightly in tho town would put a new heart into trade and business of all kinds, and give the place a new lease of life. And this is altogether irrespective of tho employment that would be provided, particularly for some of the shoals of yonng lads who are growing up into manhood without any settled or definite aim or object in life, or even the consolation, man; of them, of being able to provide their own support. If ouly to supply this growing social want, a combined and pcuerous effort should be made, apart altogether from the speculative phases of the question, to assist in the creation of some local sources of employment. It is hardly surprising that heads of families, after surveying the dreary industrial waste around them, and the utter hopelessness of providing employment for their children, turn their faces citywards and disappear among the crowd, turning up not improbably in course of lime as recruits in the ever-swelling ranks of tho unemployed.