DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS.

CRY OF THE UNEMPLOYED [Per Press Association.] Dunedin, July 9

There are fully 100 unskilled labourers unemployed in Dunedin at present, and their ranks are being swelled by new arrivals from the Old Country. Forty painters were idle last week, but the Union Company absorbed thirty. This week the carpenters and joiners are having a dull time, between 40 and 50 looking for work. These include some who are unemployed for the first time for fifteen years. It has been found necessary to warn tradesmen .against proceeding to Auckland, as there is a surplus of carpenters there..

AUTOMATIC BAKERY. Wellington, July 9

A second automatic baking company '•; being formed in Wellington. Three bakery firms have amalgamated, and intend erecting ovens capable (f turning out 10,000 loaves daily.

TWO CRIMINAL CASES. Wellington, July 9

Frank Gillespie, lately a railway employee,, was committed for trial on a charge of attempting to break an 1 enter the Lambton Station booking office with intent to commit a crime. Norman Eraser was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting and robbing a colored man named Edward Lopez, late at night in the city street. Two men held Lopez's arms while a J third, alleged to bo Eraser, cut out the man's pockets, severely cutting bis thigh in doing so, and took a ours© containing £3.