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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1921, Page 1

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CONDITIONS IN Cl! 15ISTCI i r !*( !! | ItV THLUGKAI*!! —I’KH I’KKSH ASSOC’I.tTiONj CIIIMSTCIiriU 11, Sept. 27 Al ;i 11 k.m*i i*iof 11m• Nurili C.mtor--1 111 V ril.Dlipli.VtliDMl ( 'itllllllil 1< U. D <!»• pwtnlimi n) oij'lil uneinplovoil \v:i> received. Thu spokes mim V:rid tlm nil uci'c prepared In lake any kind nl work. They had travelled many miles Icnkiiij' lor work, hut found il quite impossible to p»i it. Also, where thuru was work, veiv snial! wa*j;es were o llu rod. The chairman remarked that nothing lull relief work was at present to he olitaim-d, anil ii was necessary to spin <hi I that work, as far it?' possible and do the oreaiesi eood in the greatest immher. An appeal to the jmhlie lor the establishment ol a relief fund Wits sitLVLr.esled. hut event ually the folio*,vino was carried : ‘That o \ inii to there hein*' no definite proposal that would he likely to appeal to ihe psi!>li<*. the time Tor establishing an unemployment fund is inopportune, hut that a sub-eommit tee he set up to see il some dolinite proposal cannot he btuiijiht forward, ami report to the next meeting.