THE UNEMLOYED.
WELLINGTON*. July 28. Wellington City Council is putting extra works in hand to meet the unemployment emergency. The -Mayor’s Fund now exceeds seven thousand sterling. Special loans aggregating forty thousand pounds are beign raised. These amounts, plus a Government subsidy, will bring the total to nearly seventy thousand pounds. The money is being devoted to street and road works, the improvement ol the sandhill area, am! tree planting. CANTEEN FUND TO RESCUE. CHRISTCHURCH. July 28. In order to help with the relief of unemployment, the Canteen Funds Hoard has made a grant of £4500 to the Returned Soldiers’ Association, of which £BOO will come to the Canterbury district. Tlie proposal is to use e money on wages for unemployed returned soldiers and to endeavour to obtain a £ for C subsidy from local 1 ,ulies. on the same lines as are followed in regard to the Poppy Day funds.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 1
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150THE UNEMLOYED. Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 1
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