DUNEDIN UNEMPLOYED.
MAYOR GREATLY CONCERNED. INCREASE IN NUMBERS. i ßy Tr!p P raph.-rre?s Association.) DUNF.DIN. this day. The Mayor, Mr. W. B. Taverner. HT = tne unemployment problem is cau*inhim peat concern. The City Council j= unable at present to do very" much more than ,t has accomplished, and the ontloM< i> not bright. With regard to the £2000 prant from the Government, the Mayor" ?av= the council must draw up a. schedule of *-ork, the Public Works Department then must approve the schedule, and the Labour Office selects men for employment. These ere all married men and receive 14/ a day. About 50 men are in the relief works now bein? carried out. Mr. O. H. Lijrhtfoot, the officer in charge of the Labour Department, says 104 married men and 140 sinple nuMi are on the waitinp list. This total of 310 represents an increase of 35 on the total on Monday of last -week.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 3
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155DUNEDIN UNEMPLOYED. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 3
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