THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BRICKLAYERS.
Among the applicants for assistance from the Wellington Benevolent Institution Trustess a few days ago was a bricklayer who had tramped all the way from Napier to that land of promise for bricklayers, as he imagined it—misled, poor fellow, by the announcements concerning the number of hands required at Parliament buildings. He was given a night's lodging, and advised to go to Petone, where bricklayers are said to be exceptionally ajarce just now. ■*5 ____
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10043, 23 May 1898, Page 5
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