Another instance of the same kind of thing is that out of four contracts let by the corporation of Auckland to men professedly reduced almost to starva tion point, one contract has been: practically abandoned. The men have! not been near it for a week. Why ?, Because they preferred loafing round) and eating the bread of charity to working below "fair wages." Such men. are worthy of no sympathy whatever. It ■ -they eter > ■ had •: a true sense of dignity and in-! dependence it has died within them, and they are self-degraded. We notice that the Wellington Evening Press has written on the subject of the unemployed, and concludes as follows : — " Not only have successive Ministries differed m their treatment of it,, bub members of the same Ministry have differed widely. Divided counsels and infirm purposes have had their natural effect ; and amid confusion, vacilla tion, timidity, spasmodic activity and irritating weakness, the movement has arrived at a stage where it is very difficult to control it or to get rid of it m any satis factory way. There is one fact, how ever, which we would earnestly com mend to the attention of the Govern ment. It is this. Whenever m the past a sound principle has been applied m a practical manner to this trouble some question, its application has al ways been successful so long as it was persisted m. Sir John Hall absolutely put a stop to the unemployed agitation for a time ; and there is no doubt the pre sent Government could do the same if they had the courage to do what he did. He simply denied the right- of any able-bodied person to demand to be supported at the public expense, and he left the unemployed to get their own living by working for private employers or for local bodies. We • believe that that is the only sound principle, as it has most certainly been hitherto the only successful ex pedient. We believe it is entirely m accordance with the individual views of the Premier and some other members of the Ministry ; and we are strongly of opinion that they could not do better than resort to it as the settled policy of the Government. If they did so. 