THE UNEMPLOYED.
IMMEDIATE WORK WANTED. A WELLINGTON DEPUTATION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. About 200 unemployed waited on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Lands yesterday requesting immediate employment. It was stated that nearly 1000 men were registered at Wellington, and the position was becoming rapidly worse. In reply, Mr Forbes undertook to provide work for 200 men in the next two weeks—loo in Wellington and 100 in the Nelson district.
Members of the deputation expressed keen disappointment and urged that the provisions of the Unemployment Bill be put into immediate effect. Mr Forbes said it would be very difficult to do that, as the Bill was breaking new ground and required a thorough investigation. AN INCREASE FOR THE WEEK. TOTAL OF 5441 ON REGISTER. WELLINGTON, This Day. There was an increase of 162 compared with the previous week in the number of unemployed registered in New Zealand for the week ended last Monday, according to a statement by the Minister of Labour (the Hon. S. G. Smith). The week's total was 5441, and details of registration at the labour bureaux and post offices are as follow (with dependents and without dependents): Auckland 740, 557 ; Wellington 534, 421; Christchurch 571, :365- Dunedin 383, 153; Invercargill 103, 54. The total for the five centres (with the figures for the previous week in parentheses) are as follow: Auckland 1297 (1218), Wellington 555 (861). Christchurch 936 (731), Dunedin 536 (452), Invercargill 157(160),
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 260, 16 August 1930, Page 6
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