HARD TIMES AT HOME.
Northampton is the first English town (says the Daily Express) seriously to feel the wave of depression now passing over Europe. Seven hundred men are out of work there, the unemployed women are counted by the multitude, and two-thirds of the factories are on short time. Hundreds of houses are standing empty, and thousands who a few weeks ago were earning good wages are to-day existing on a few shillings a week. In the streets men. can be seen with pinched faces, too proud to accept relief, who prefer to starve. But it is on the girls that the suffering is falling most heavily. Many of these live on wages of 10s or 12s a week when in full work. Now in factor} after factory their work is lessenbg, till some are averaging half-a-crown a week. Boot and shoe making, Northampton’s staple industry, is.feeling the full strain of -foreign competition .and of lost colonial markets. The building trade is still worse. The town authorities, while. deprecating panic, are taking measures to feed and help those in want. Public works have been started, and no man who has applied up to now has been refused.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 55, 21 February 1902, Page 3
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