NEXT WINTER.
HOW r.;;Y UNEMPLOYED
RELIEF WORKS PROBLEM.
STRAIN ON LOCAL BODIES. MAYOR EXPRESSES ALARM. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. "Although several of the relief works for which special loans were raised have been completed, there is still money left on some of the accounts, but it is steadily dwindling, and the number of unemployed engaged is gradually being reduced," said the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, in discussing unemployment. In reply to questions the Mayor raid he certainly would not view with equanimity the possibility of having to provide relief works for unemployed_ in the future on the same scale as during the past winter. Neither the Wellington City Council nor any other local body could stand it. Wellington had done far more than any other centre in this diiection, with the idea of assisting the Government to relieve the situation, which was particularly bad, but he regarded it as an emergency, and he could not contemplate providing relief works on such a scale again.. It would he a very serious problem if there were as many unemployed next winter.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 8
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182NEXT WINTER. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 8
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