UNEMPLOYMENT.
ACUTE IN CHRISTCHURCH. APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. (Special to Daili Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 10. About 50 unemployed trooped into the City Council Chambers to-dav to urge on the executive of the Citizen’s Unemployment 'Jommittee the necessity for help. A deputation of five waited on the executive. The Chairman (Mr E. H. Andrews) said that the executive was sympathetic, but was in need of money at present. Tht deputation urged that a depot for relief should be immediately resuscitated, and stressed the urgency of the position. xiio Chairman said tha.t the Government would be asked to put more public works in hand. The depot would not solve the question, but the committee would consider the suggestion made in that respect. The committee would do its best to help. Th-j Trades Hall Unemployment Committee sent a telegram to the ActingPrime Minister drawing attention to the seriousness «pf the position and urging the Government to do something. This morning there were 24 fresh registrations at the Labour Department s Bureau. The total number of registrations now is 172 —105 married men, with 269 dependants, and 67 single men. Of the total 110 had been sent to work and registered again. Since January 4, 137 have registered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19994, 11 January 1927, Page 10
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