DEPRESSING PROSPECTS.
J UHEMFEOTMEIfT XX OTaVftO OVER 200 NAMES ON KEGISTEE. CBj- Telegraph.—©»a CorreFi'oaflraM DCXEDIX, Saturday. The outlook in the unemployment situation in Dunedin is blacker than it has been at this time of the year for years past. Last j ear -40 men *rerc repstered at this corresponding period as being otft ■ of work, but on the Labour Dcpart--3 ment's unemployment register to-day ; £2H names are recorded. Of this Jruttber 1"<0 arc unskilled labourers., but it als-o include* eight motor drivers, fr*e -' engineer*, four electricians and four : clerks. A Labour Department official «ai3 that though no caws of acute dirtrew had come under hi* notice, many of th* • men. wno <.f :b{-m with largo "families, were truly "up against it." The pro--1 spects for the winter were most deprcf 1 sing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 8
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132DEPRESSING PROSPECTS. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 8
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