NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.
' ♦ (Per Press Association.) Chbtstcbubch, July 30. A number of unemployed waited on the Major this moraine and requested that he should do something in the way of pro viding work. The Mayor said that the money in hand could only be used for the purpose of rolieving aged men. He pro* mised, however, to write to Government urging the necessity of sometb ing being done at once. Wellisqtos, July 30. The ballot of members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway serjaat t of New Zealand is being taken for the purpose of ascertaining the feeling with regvrd to the acceptance of the conditions on which the Railway Commissioners will recognise the Society. Dumedik, July 30. The Engineers' Society has carried a resolution calling the attention of the Government, to the men on the goldfields working twelve hours' shifts for eight hours' pay, and asking that legislation be introduced stopping the practice.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1894, Page 2
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154NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 31 July 1894, Page 2
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