THE UNEMPLOYED.
POSITION IN WELLINGTON. By Telegraph— Association. WELLINGTON, July 14. more men were put on to work at Victoria College grounds to-day, making forty altogether. Work is being provided in the vicinity for another dozen. There are now over four hundred names of unemployed on the list kept by the secretary of the relies committee. At a meeting uf the Citizens' Unemployed Relief Committee, to-night, the Mayor said that £717 had come in to date; with the Government subsidy this brought the amount to £1,434. About £llO had to be paid to the men now given work. There were something like 400 names on the unemployed list, and the sum in hand would not go very far. If other work than that at Victoria College was found more people would subscribe.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9543, 15 July 1909, Page 5
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132THE UNEMPLOYED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9543, 15 July 1909, Page 5
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