WORK FOR EIGHTY MEN
SIR JOSEPH WARD’S PROMISE
“POSITION WORSE”
Eighty of Auckland’s unemployed are to be given jobs on public works here immediately, and special inquiries are being made about further work, according to a telegram received from the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, by Mr. M. J. Savage, M.P.
On January 30, Mr. Savage wrote to Sir Joseph, pointing out the desperate condition of the unemployed in Auckland and stating that well over 900 were registered at the Auckland Labour Bureau. In spite of the good work being done by the benevolent societies and the Hospital Board, said Mr. Savage, the condition was growing worse, and he asked for some indication of the possibility of immediate employment being found for the men. ‘*The position is still growing worse, in spite of what the Government is doing or intending to do,” said Mr. Savage to-day. “While Parliamentarians and Ministers are talking, men are practically starving in this city. We want something done now and not next year.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 8
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168WORK FOR EIGHTY MEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 8
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