Move to help jobless
; The Riccartori Borough Council wants to do something for the unemployed in the borough. •-> It has formed a subcommittee, to inquire.- into the possibility of setting- up an "employment centre in the borough with .the backing of '■-the Labour Department, and 'ifials to the .Depart seeking its views. ’* < The Mayor , of Riccarton . (Mr R. W. J . Harrington) ‘said that the borough would
envisage staffing a drop-in type of centre manned by a community officer,. ■ Mrs Anne Mac Lean. i - . “We are not going to try to place people in employment. We feel so many of the unemployed, do not know how to even apply for jobs and this is where Mrs MacLean should be able .to
assist,” said Mr Harrington. If necessary, the unemployed could be referred, to the department. '■ '■- ;i '-'
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