MELBOURNE'S UNEMPLOYED.
+ TERRIBLE TALES OF DISTRESS (Per Aw A**<>< ixti'Oi. —< ■ Melbourne, This Pay. A deputation of the unemployed waited upon the Acting-Premier to aid the terrible state of distress in the city. Hundreds are sleeping out, and glad to get cabbage water and other refuse from the restaurants. One man, with a wife and three children, lived on bits of cabbage for a month.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 368, 9 July 1897, Page 3
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64MELBOURNE'S UNEMPLOYED. Hastings Standard, Issue 368, 9 July 1897, Page 3
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