"In the Poplar Union, at the expiration of the first month, the applicant is required to come to the stoneyard an hour earlier and to leave an hour later than before, and to break an additional bushel of stones."[507] Gradually we see it being assumed, even as regards unions under the Out-relief Regulation Order, that it is merely "when the workhouse accommodation is insufficient,"[508] or "so long as they have not adequate workhouse accommodation,"[509] that relief should be given with a labour test. Right down to February 1886, the Central Authority declared that it "would not feel justified in relaxing" the regulations which prohibited relief to able-bodied men, however temporary and undeserved might be their want of employment, "without any such test of destitution as is provided by admission to a properly managed workhouse, or the performance of an adequate task of work." To cope with the distress caused by unemployment, the Holborn Guardians on 9th February 1886 were, in fact, expressly told to hire a stoneyard.[510] [503] Local Government Board to Bristol Union, 16th January 1879, _Local Government Chronicle_, 25th January 1879, p. 69. [504] Local Government Board to Bedminister Union, January 1881; in _Local Government Chronicle_, 8th January 1881, p. 35. [505] Letter, Local Government Board to Warrington Union, March 1878; in _Local Government Chronicle_, 30th March 1878, p. 253. [506] Circular of 2nd December 1871, in First Annual Report, 1871-2, p. 67; _see_ Mr. Corbett's Report of 10th August 1871. [507] Mr. Corbett's Report of 10th August 1871. [508] Instructional letter to inspectors (?) December 1878; cited by Mr. Culley (inspector), to Newcastle Board of Guardians, _see_ MS. archives, 28th December 1878. [509] Local Government Board letter to Holborn Union, 9th February 1886, in House of Commons, No. 69 of 1886, p. 40. [510] _Ibid._ pp. 40-1. (iv.) _The Modified Workhouse Test Order_