THE UNEMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYMENT POSITION, (By Telegraph—Per Press Asaociation.) DUNEDIN, December 19. The Mayor has forwarded the following telegram to the Unemployment Board:—“Specially large deputation of over three hundred unemployed waited on me this morning the third deputation in two days. The position is desperate. Something must be done. It is difficult to restrain hungry men. Urgently suggest you telegraph guaranteeing a sustentance grant so we can pay out five hundred sterling to needy cases to enable them to pay for rent and necessities.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 5
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83THE UNEMPLOYED Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 5
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