THE UNEMPLOYED.
CONDITIODNS IN THE NORTH ISLAND.
A member of the unemployed deputation -which waited upon the Mayor of Auckland recently afterwards explained his experiences to a Star representative. He was, he said, employed on the railway construction works at Gisborne, and applied for a transfer,to the Stratford-Ongarue line. This was granted him, but on arrival there he found that 160 men had just been paid off, and there was no alternative for him but to try bush work. He went in for bushfelling and fencing, but from his experience he says the position is just as bad in the backblocks as in the cities. In the Wairarapa he was lucky to get a fencing contract at 4s per * chain, . which is, according to the man giving the information, a starvation rate of pay. In the south he found labour conditions much worse than in the north, but asserts that in the Auckland province it is difficult to get work of any description, and that as the winter comes on the position is likely to become more acute.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, June 25. There are on the books of the Labour Department the names of 150 men, mostly single, who want work.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7831, 25 June 1909, Page 3
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203THE UNEMPLOYED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7831, 25 June 1909, Page 3
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