UNEMPLOYED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8221, 27 August 1906, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED.

LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S REPORT. In the annual report of the Labour Department the Chief Clerk writes: —The total number of persons who registered their names for employment in the Auokland, Wellington, Obristobnrob, and Dunedin branches of the department were 9,255, divided as follows:'— Canada 38, Great Britain 1,096, United States of America 32, South Africa 43, Commonwealth 932, foreigners 14 (this includes Germans, Scandinavians, French, Italians, eto.), New Zealanders 7,070. Of this number 5,159 were actually sent to either public or private employment One hundred and] seventeen families were sent to join the basbands and fathers who had succeeded in making a home for them [at the scehe of employment. The greatest difficulty we have to oontend with is the man who is unable (either for Jaok of physical ability, incompetence or unwillingness) to iaokle bard work. Many of our newcomers have queer notions as to what tbe'colony is like and the olass of work to he bad Many have been greatly disappointed on arrival, and some have turned tail and gone baok to the Old Country. I cannot empbastse too strongly the necessity at the other end of warning such as those to «tay away. The man who Wants nothing but light employment will, in many oases, fail |to get it, and unless his physique and health are good enough to enable him to do bard work he will go to the wall.