! ~ - - { Ihe problem of the unemployed is j not yet solved (says the Cluiha Leader). as evidenced F»y the number of persons" travelling on the road with their * ‘ blueys ’ * on their backs. One swagsuiaii who was down in his luck travelled through Balclutha on Saturday, and iu course of conversation with him it was learned that he had not had a square meal for the past few days. In j fact, he said that when he was passing through Dunedin he called at the police station and asked to be taken into custody on a charge of vagrancy, as this appeared to him to be the only way 1 1o get a meal. However, it was point- I ; cd out that if lie was arrested he was j Labie to get three months, so instead | he was provided with the wherewithal to procure a meal; but when spoken to in Balclutha he seemed to think lie might just as well be in gaol, as he could not get work or food.
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Otaki Mail, 11 April 1923, Page 4
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