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Grey River Argus, 23 February 1927, Page 3

When the Otago Trades and Labour Council's deputation was before Mr Downie Stewart in connection: x/ith unemployment, Mr Lightfoot, of the Labour Department, stated that 11 quite a number of their latest registrations were recent immigrants. They had circularised all farmers, and the only ones who replied in regard to possible ■work regretted that they had nothing in the meantime. The number of farmers wanting labour was only one-half as great as in former years.

Two men were last week charged in the Palmerston North Police Court with being unlawfully on an enclosed area, but in circumstances which did .not disclose the perpetration, or the intent to commit any other offence. f-.nl b ai cused pleaded guilty. Tile pol- ,!, »■ dialed thal one had a penny in his possession and the other threepence. One of the accused—they were both out nf work—said he was penniless and had nowhere to pass the night and the other that he had unsuccessfully searched foi work. They were convicted and discharged.