Waihi Unemployed

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1307, 20 April 1905, Page 2

Waihi Unemployed

Visit lit till Labour Inspector

Tlie Question Solved

Sinob tho appeal to tbo Government fo assistance tho number of unemployed it Waihi has considerably lessened. A few days ago it was stated there wer f about 300 men out of work in the town, an J when this intimation roached tho Labour Department the question of finding employment for so many presented some little difficulty, and, to quote the words of Mr H. Forguson, ol the Auckland branch of J'uo Labour Department, who is at present in Waihi to consult with Sergeant Shtiohan, local Inspector of the Department) " we began rftl to put our wita together to find ways and t |j moans of finding employment." How ever, now that Mr. Ferguson is on ihe ,r y "PO'i he finds that be will bo able to mora ia. than meet the demand, Oiit of the iat number of men unemployoil two weeks irs n l? 0 thera are now cbmparatively fow left, ho The total number of applications recoivod 0j by Sergeant. Sbnchan up til 1 to-day was ho botweeu thirty »nd forty, ninotoen of whom of are married men Th" comparatively 08 small number applying for \vork is to be nd accounted for, to a, large, extent, by the in fact that during the past week about seventy men, formerly working in tho Waihi mine, have oecn taken on again by the Company. Threo of be> applicants on ho Sergeant Shcohan's list have since been is found work in Waihi, andit is moro than ti- likely that moro willl snoecd local--10 ly beforo the timo to l- ave for tho ig now placo ot eujploymont arrives, !•• It would appear tlia' after all the slump d, in Waihi was only tomponry Tho following tness'ige fro'tn Mr Lonch, of Pirijl, "kti ISng'iwjiT in Ch.argo of Public Works, 0 f boon vecoived by tho looal represonta. tivo of tho Libiu;r Departmonc" Be workmen coining from Waihi, Thoy )r should be advincd. to bring warm olothirig and blanlto s, ri many of them will be camped 2,500 fe«t above tho sea level. ,j No more than twenty should bo sent in t , one day'. The first oontingsnt will leave Waihi for Tanirwrunui, a section of tho Main Trunk line in the King Country, oo i( Wednesday next. T hey oannot be taken .utontr in conseqtioncii of tho Easter holit days intervening. Tho men will entrain (i Ht Wailtirio, and fromi that point their faro w '" P'"' by the Department, to be n roiuiidod by tho men lutor, j With regard to work on the Waihi-1 (, wroa railway we nndorstand that Mr .'• l ;haw, forsman of works, has room for six or seven n ien, Preference for this work will given to married meh , whose families are raiding i» Waihi, 1 0 The" Donton F,aS" i 3 guaranteed both , f °, oo o ," r y' we' l r. Price 10/6. Obtain- 1 able otily from 8,. Hetherington, Thimts t 1 Te Aroha, and W'aihi. |