ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE OAMARU MAIL. Sir, —According to late accounts in your issue, the unemployed works or relief works are going to be suspended. Now, Mr. Editor, we would wish that you may publish -this letter, so that the parties in whose power it is to stop these works may see that other employment is open, or continue these works until the country requires our labor. It is a well-known f.-ict that we are only earning as much as will keep us from the gaol, charitable institution, or soup kitchen. In consequence of the small pay we have been getting we have not been able to lay by one groat for the rainy day. So that if the works are stopped our provisions are stopped, as the works are our security. Now, what we would pray for is, that the works may be carried on until we can find an outlet for our labor, and we will be more than happy to accept moderate pay.—l am, &c., Laborer* Windsor, December 15.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 16 December 1880, Page 2
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175ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 16 December 1880, Page 2
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