DESPERATE MINERS
CONTINUANCE OF RELIEF. DEMANDED PROM GUARDIANS. BOARD’S FINANCIAL PLIGHT. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT. Received Dec. 14, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 13. Four thousand unemployed miners, accompanied by many women, demonstrated at Durham to protest to the local board of guardians against a resolution to abolish relief to ablebodied men. . ~ , 'The deputation told the hoard tlna-t the demonsltraito-ns would not permit the guardians to leave uilL they got satisfaction. They were destitute to the point of desperation. The memhem of the board declined to grant immediate relief. . The chairman had previously told tne heard that apart from a loan of £43,000 they were overdrawn to the extent of £39,000. —'Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 December 1925, Page 5
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