WHEN WINTER COMES.
INCREASE IN UNEMPLOYED. Usually the number of unemployed on the waiting: list at the local oilice of the Labour Department is about I.jO weekly, but this week the number is 173. Of these 132 are classified as lit for heavy and 41 for light work. In the list are GO labourers and storcmen, and titters and. turners also figure prominently. During the week the Department found private employment for one each of the following: Factory hand, fitter and turner, horse driver, handy man, and eight labourers. One attendant was placed in Government employment. New vehicular ferry time-tables to Devonport, Northcote, and Birkenhead are announced by the Devonport Steam Ferry Company, Limited. Special services will be run on Saturday and Sundays. All previous time-tables are cancelled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 4
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128WHEN WINTER COMES. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 4
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