TREK TO GISBORNE
WORKLESS KAILWAYMEN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBOBNE, Hth February. Single men in the railway camp in the Kopuawhara Valley, at the Waikokopu end of the Gisborne railway route, where they have remained since the cessation of work on the line, have now reached the end of their' resources and will have to depart elsewhere for food, if for nothing else. According to information received in Gisborne to-day it is probable that the Kopuawhara men will arrive here in the course of the next few days. If this occurs it means that Gisborne's unemployed will be increased by over one hundred from Kopuawhara who will probably pick up a further fifty or sixty men.at Bartlett's on the way in to Gisborne. The town has already had many calls for assistance to the earthquake sufferers, and the arrival of a further 150 or 160 men, all practically destitute, will mean a greatly augmented .burden on the community in Gisborne. - Hearing of the impending trek, the Chamber of Commerce dispatched the following messago to the Prime Minister: "One hundred men been discharged from Waikokopu and are coming to Gisborne. Local organisations cannot assist them,.being busy with earthquake relief. Chamber of Commerce suggests continuance of work at Waikokopu or finding work elsewhere."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 7
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210TREK TO GISBORNE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 7
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