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ACTS OF VANDALISM
(By Telegraph —ter tress Association) WESTPORT, July 10. Two motor-cars onwed by Mesrs Morgan and Gaskill, miners working at the Cascade Creek mine, which are usually’ left at Bui nett’s Face during the miners’ absence at work, were visited yesterday by vandals, who slashed to ribbons the hoods and upholstery of both ears. One of the cars is a new machine. This act is alleged to have been the work of some individual who is opposed to the so-called tribute system, which is being employed at the mine where these men work The police are investigating. MISTAKE IN FIGURES. WELLINGTON, July 10. The Minister of Labour (the Hon S. G. Smith), in a statement in the House to-day said that recently he had been challenged when he had stated during the unemployment debate that there were. 35,000 females in receipt of £250 a year or over. It had since been ascertained that an error had been made in the Commissioner’s office. The figure of 35.000 applied to males in receipt of over £250 a year. There were actually only’ 2500 females under that head.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1931, Page 5
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189DOMINION ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1931, Page 5
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