THE UNEMPLOYED AT DUNEDIN.
♦ Dunedin’, Tuesday. One Dunedin member having telegraphed to the Minister for Public Works yesterday on behalf of the unemployed, the following reply lias been received by Mr. Dick, .M U.R. ;—“ I have communicated, with the view of providing immediate employment to those on whose behalf you wired me. I apprehend that the unemployed in Dunedin now consist largely of those who would desire the possession of small holdings of their own, which could, so far, place them beyond the vicissitudes of the labor market by affording the means of providing food for themselves when not working for others. It is therefore purposed to be sought from the Legislature to lay off at once village settlements adjacent to some of the railway lines in course of construction, on which employment will be found. I am in hopes that by this means we may largely remove the anomaly of unemployed in a country to which the terra should be practically unknown.—J. . Macandrew.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5762, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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164THE UNEMPLOYED AT DUNEDIN. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5762, 17 September 1879, Page 2
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