THE CITY UNEMPLOYED.
DRAFTED ON TO CO-OPERA-I TIVE WORKS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. With a view to relieving the unemployment difficulty to some extent in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, the Labor Department has ibeen authorised to place eighty men on the various , public works within reach of the re-
spectivc centres. Of this number twenty men will be despatched from Auckland to the railway works in North Auckland, twenty from Wellington, for road construction works at fc>uatford, forty from Christchurch to road-making probably at Ashley Gorge. Of the Wellington quota fully half will be ex-waterside workers. Tihe first batch of ten are going on Thursday morning, and the remainder a day or two later. From the other centres men will be dispatched as soon as possible. The men in each case will be placed upon co-operative works, at which good men have been able to make as much as 12s per day. •> —~
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 22 April 1914, Page 7
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153THE CITY UNEMPLOYED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 22 April 1914, Page 7
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