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On October 4 1870, Canterbury settlers presented a petition to the Provincial Council decrying the lack of work and continued assisted immigration. The 1870 Petition of the Unemployed resulted in an inquiry being established to look into the grievances of the petitioners. Its signatories were according to the petition, “induced to come hither by the representations of official agents of [the Canterbury] government…to the effect that they would get certain and constant work at a fair wage such as would allow them to maintain themselves and their families in greater comfort than they could attain in the places they came from, and also within a reasonable time by their honest labour and savings to raise themselves and their families as aforesaid in the social scale, by becoming eventually landowners and employers of the immigrants who should succeed them with the same object, and thus their gaining leisure for their education and mental improvement”. According to the petition, work was difficult to find, the work provided by the government for the unemployed did not provide a living wage, and the government was still assisting a continued stream of immigrants to find permanent employment at the expense of long-time colonists who were unemployed. A committee was established to look into the allegations and grievances and reported back to the Council in November 1870. The committee had interviewed a number of the petitioners and had surveyed employers, chairmen of the local Roads Boards and ministers of religion. The committee found, among other things, that there was, if anything, less want of work that year than in previous years, and reported of the petitioners that “while some [are] deserving of assistance, a great number are men who will not work if they can help it, or who will not take work under a certain rate of wages, or who through extravagance of various kinds failed to make provision for a period of slackness.” This image is of the evidence of Charles Wedge to the Committee appointed to Consider the Petition of the Unemployed, 1870. CAAR CH287 CP 637c Papers of the Provincial Council The record is based in the Christchurch Archives New Zealand Regional Office. For further enquiries email Christchurch.Archives@dia.govt.nz For updates on our On This Day series and news from Archives New Zealand, follow us on Twitter twitter.com/ArchivesNZ Material from Archives New Zealand |
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