GREAT DESTITUTION.
STRIKE FUNDS EXHAUSTED. SHIPYARDS CLOSE DOWN. London, March 30. The miners' .unions havo disbursed .£1,013,250 in strike pay. Thoy still hold securities nominally of tlio value of .£950,900, and mostly belonging to Durham, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Nottingham. Tlio funds of the North Wales, Warwickshire, Cumberland, Somerset, and Bristol unions are exhausted. Tho National Free Church Council is organising a relief committee in every district. Collections will be taken up on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Unemployed returns disclose the fact that the strike has not caused abnormal distress in London.
From (he Mayor's fund at Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, 10,000 persons are being fed. Seven thousand others are receiving out-relief.
Three thousand seven hundred children at Cardiff arc being fed by charity. Many families are foodless, and there aro numerous sick.
Tho Lord Mayor of Manchester basopened a fund. Great destitution exists at Stockport, Lancaster, Swinton, and Tyldesley. The Municipality of Glasgow has voted £2000 for local relief. Messrs. William Doxford and Som, shipbuilders, Sunderland, aro closing their yards owing to lack of coal. This will render 3000 workers idle. Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, is arranging to distribute the New South Wales gift of ,£IOOO worth of food in tho Potteries district, where many are on. the verge of starvation. Importers are supplying th? produce required at cost price. ANOTHER COMMISSION, UNREST TO BE INVESTIGATED. (Hec. April J, 1 a.m.) London, March 31. The "Observer" states that the Government will probably appoint a Royal Coinmission with a wide basis of reference to investigate the prevailing labour unrest. Tom Mann lias been committed for trial for his alleged seditious speeches. Ho has been, bailed out.
COLLECTIONS IN DUNEDIN. Dunedin, March 30. United children's services are to be he'd in the various city churches tomorrow, when collections will be taken up to aid. the starving children in England.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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311GREAT DESTITUTION. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5
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