NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
WELLINGTON. Thursday. Government states that the ranks of unemployed arc being increased both North and .South. It is expected as various contracts fall in tint the number will be still further augmented. The records of the Public Works Department during the past two years show a very steady average of labourers engaged on public works, the number nearly always being about 3000." Whan unemployed had to be relieved it increases slightly and when work is plentiful it decreases, but the range is never beyond 3100 or below 2800 in round numbers.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 17 April 1886, Page 2
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97NEW ZEALAND. [BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2149, 17 April 1886, Page 2
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