THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION.
CABLE NEWS.
lUintaa Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyrimit,
HOLLESLEY BAY FARM. Received March 20, 3.36 a.m. LONDON, March 19. The President of the Local Government Board, the Right Hon. John i Buni3, informed Sir F. Channing, M.P., that after selling the produce and reckoning the relief given to dependents, the weekly coi-t per man at the labour colony at Hollesley Bay was from 30s to 425, compared with the local w-'ge rate of agricultural labourers of 17s. Mr John Burns, speaking in the House of Co'ntrons, the other day, on the Unemployed Hill, referred to the failure of :;he farm colonies, and stated that ILdleslcy Bay involved a loss of £2.i,()00 a year. He gave some striking illustrations of the unsatisfactory results of such methods of assisting the unemployed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9045, 21 March 1908, Page 5
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132THE UNEMPLOYED QUESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9045, 21 March 1908, Page 5
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