EX-SOLDIERS' GRIEVANCES
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(BY TSLBGRAPff PRERB ASSOCIATION.) ■ CHRISTCHURCH, s May 9. A deputation of returned sol'liers ■waited on Mr! Leadley, secretary tc the local branch of the R.S.A., and suited that approximately twenty retu ned men employed as casual labourer, in the Christclrm-ch goods sheds had ;«en dismissed, while immigrants, who had been in the country only a montl or two. were kept in'employment. Mr. Leadley sent a telegram to -ie Hon. D. H. Guthrie, embodying this statement, afld saying that the Assoc i_ tion looked to him to give preferei c •of employment to returned soldiers.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 7
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100EX-SOLDIERS' GRIEVANCES Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 7
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