THE UNEMPLOYED.
POSITION IN WELLINGTON.
WELLINGTON, August 10. About 700 names have been registered with the secretary of the Citizens' Unemployed Relief Fund since the list waa -opened. Some 20 recent arrivals from the country have 6ought registration during the la>st few days, but they have beenT recommended to return to the country, a3 they could not be allowed to participate in the work benefits of the funds.
Taking into reckoning the wages to be paid this week, about £1000 will have been disbursed from the Reliei Fund up to Saturday next. The total subscriptions to date are £1731 8s Id.
'A man at Eekeraiorde, Saxony, made a' wager that he would consume 40 halfpenny buns without da-inking anything. H« "choked over the thirty-first and died a fe\< hours later.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 27
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130THE UNEMPLOYED. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 27
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