The Unemployed.
WORK PROVIDED—RATH OF WAGES. Timabo, July 26. Thirty working men out of employment waited on the Mayor to-day saying they wanted work not charity. The Mayor promised to give them Oorporation work at about twenty-four shillings a week. Crbisicsurcr, July 26. In respect to the payment of relief wages the Christchurch Labor Bureau have decided that for work near town married men should be paid three shillings and four shillings per day according to their families, and single men 2s 6d per day. On work up the country married men should have 4s 6d and single men Bs. It was further resolved that the Government should be recommended that men able to do a day's work should be advised to apply to the Charitable Aid Board, as they could no longer be kept on relief. Nearly 200 men are on relief works in Canterbury.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 20, 28 July 1887, Page 2
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146The Unemployed. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 20, 28 July 1887, Page 2
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