DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.
.!v';'ißy>Telegrkph.-Spe6kl:|Corre9pandGnt.) '''■■ ; !' , ■-'- 'S-U rf*"-' „'' Wanga'nui, Octibe'r 17. : : : Mr. F. , lfcSpnrdlß;:imanager of ths>Wanganui Sash and Door Company, who has iiis't returned from a visit to the Old Country, in un intcrviow stated, among other things, that the unemployed question at Homo did not appear: ,bo strious as ho , had been.':led to believe;. ,' Compared with population,''he did : not' Know whether there wore so many unemployed in England as In New Zealand, and eigns of poTorty.were not ahnormally promineut..,.He visited thc. r East,Eid with t>. gentleman', interested in ••tho work'bf* assisting cases of distress, but even in tho slums <ho did not.find::bitter poverty. He anticipated that ni doubt there wero many worklesa and much poverty, but the latter did not etrika him as foroibly.as ho expected, neither was drunkenness so apparent or. so abnormal in tho- slums evenat night, as might have bson expected in such.a huge pit} , ..' ; . ■'
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 4
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148DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 4
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