The Unemployed.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, May 15 Between thirty and forty of the un employed are provided for nightly at th< shelter shed and Benevolent Home. The number of applicants to th< Labour Bureau are gradually diminishing and are confined mostly to single men. The benevolent trustees are applying to the City Council for 1000 yards oi spawls and hammers so that the validity of applicants may be tested by getting them to -work out, by stone breaking, part of the cost of the assistance rendered. However, only those well able to work would be put to it. The chairman stated that he did not brand all applicants for relief as loafers, but possibly eight of the twenty-eight lodged in shelter shed each night were loafers.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 315, 16 May 1894, Page 3
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127The Unemployed. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 315, 16 May 1894, Page 3
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