Unemployed at Melbourne.
A deputation, said to represent 500 " unemployed," waited upon the Minister of Public Works this morning, and n.^kod for assistance in obtaining employment. Mr Nimmo stated that as many men as liked could get work at stonebieakiug with the contractors at Watt's liver. To-morrow tenders for half a dozen important public works, the Minister said, would be opened, thus employment would be ghen to a large number of men. There was no scarcity of work, he contended.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 2
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80Unemployed at Melbourne. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 2
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