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INSPIRES POT AND KETTLE/ DISCOUBSE. .- (By Telegraph.) . ( , (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 2nd August.*, It is stated that quite a number of young men, who left their jobs in the ; country to come to the city to get work". at some of the places where unemploy - ed men were put on at union wages,--in anticipation of having a better -time and shorter hours in the city than on some of the country farms, nave suffered a severe disillusionment, and ajter spending their savings are asfcing^in" __ some cases that their fares be paift~.fi>. ' take them back to the districts frbro". " whence they. came. . ' ' ■ Some of them say that many of the single men, who are getting an allowance from the Hospital Board for bed. and two meals a day, are.not the'stamp, of men who will be a success anywhercr -; What they could not understand was why some of the men were getting this allowance renewed week after week. ' One week might be right enough,,'but if they would only, "butt in and get" out into the farmers' country" they were bound to get enough w,ork to live, , if it was only grubbing gorse; but they, would not do that while they got tucker for nothing. ' . '; J ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1926, Page 6
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207SHATTERED ILLUSION Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1926, Page 6
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