CITY COUNCIL'S AID
FUR. THE UNEMPLOYED
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, Jan. 24
During a discussion on unemployment during tiie hearing ol <;uo local body labourers’ dispute before Hie Conciliation Council, Mr Lcwin, town cleric, staetd that last 'winter tile City Council paid £IO,OOO to help unemployment and did not get value. The labourers employed were storemen and other classes and woie not worth,ss per day. The council had mortgaged ‘mext year’s revenue to the exeiio of £'dooo.
In reply to a suggestion that Dunedin was tli« wealthiest city, Mr Lewin said that the yearly increa..« in the savings bank returns and rapid taking up qf City Co.uk il debentures showed .that instead of placing money in industry people took up gilt-edged debentures. Tin but money was wot wealth.
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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1312, 25 January 1928, Page 7
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