A CRY FOR HELP.
[to the editor.] Sir, —Being one of the unemployed I desire your kind permission to make the following remarks : —I wonder when the Government will open up public works so as to give employment to men who are numerous now in Timaru, and who, like myself live mostly on the sea air ? I wish to suggest that the councillors of Timaru might turn the wheel a little by getting the pipes laid through the streets for the water works. This has to be done and why not now ? As you know, in Timaru the times are so hard that people are almost starving, work being slack and money scarce among the unemployed.—l am, &c., UNEMPLOYED,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2535, 6 May 1881, Page 2
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119A CRY FOR HELP. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2535, 6 May 1881, Page 2
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