WORK WANTED
FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS.
Many returned soldiers, particularly disabled men, are stated to be; in need of employment at the present time. To-mor-row afternoon, at half-past 2 o'clock, a special meeting of the Finance Committee of the City Council will bo held for the purpose of hearing the views of a deputation from the Returned Soldiers' Association on the unemployment problem as it affects returned men. i.
To-day the Mayor (Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P.) informed a Post reporter that-but few returned soldiers had called on him in search of work, bo apparently they were going to their own association. He was, owever, approached every day by numbers of men who wanted employment, particularly by clerks and men who had been working in the country. Since the relief funds had become exhausted at the end of last year there were now no works on which the unemployed could be placed. The only relief work still in progress was the construction of. the new road from, Brooklyn to Vogeltown, and that was provided for out of loan money.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1922, Page 8
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178WORK WANTED Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1922, Page 8
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