The Christchurch Unemployed.
0 mi ffNl^iD* PRESS ASSOCIATION.]) t^ if I fT? V^HBiSTOHUBeffv Wednesday. A deputation. headed by Mr Keese^j .M.H,R., r waited on trlie^rgmier .yesteraay denied that, men" on relief works were', 5 .paid Kisser m other par t 4of the Colony. 1 Th\j idea 1 'of tho establiahmeftt of tTie blank* of issue 'to relieve. .the. depression was. absurd. Government would not give' more than the wages. all ea4y offered,) but he promised to -ascertain if single men could not be employed on the Greymputih railway, and if the Stella could take some men to Napier, where a large drainage contract was being carried out. •.■;< • I ''
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 2
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108The Christchurch Unemployed. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1655, 11 March 1886, Page 2
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