POSITION IN DUNEDIN
The Mayor (Mr W. B. Taverner) stated this morning that the tramways department was completing arrange meats to go on with the duplication and extension of the line at Anderson’s Bay, and that a. start would ho made about the first of next month. The job, which did not como under ino category of relief work, would provide employment for about twenty men in addition to the permanent staff c. platelayers. Prom (he tramways department’s point of view it would have been bettor to have delayed the work until the summer season. However, m accordance with tho desire to provide work for the tho matter was being pushed on. A little later in the season the department would undertake the North-east Valley duplication. . . „ . According to the official figures at the Labor Department’s office the number of applications for employment is stcadilv increasing. There arc now 3--1 names'on tho roll, including 14/ married men and 175 single men.
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Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 6
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160POSITION IN DUNEDIN Evening Star, Issue 19615, 22 July 1927, Page 6
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