THE UNEMPLOYED.
■ ♦ I fPxa Pbxbs Association.] I AUCKLAND, Juiy 30. I About 250 attended the meeting of unBmployed this morning, H. W. Farnall Presiding. Votes of thanks were recorded Bo Sir George Grey and Mr Moss for their Htction in the Honse of Representatives, and vote of censure was passed on the Hon J. A. H?ole and M«"«jr3 Dargaville, Peacock, and ■Thompson for their apathy. A resolution Hras also passed (with three groans) strongly ■condemning the action of the Mayor with preference to the unemployed. Some revelaKions are anticipated when Government B>roduce the correspondence with the Mayor Hj| Auckland on the unemployed question. meeting adjourned to Tuesday next. KsThirty-six men, employed at the relief HVorks at Mount Eden, struck work this Kvorning, as they could only earn 3s 9d per The men held a meeting afterwards. Had agreed to send a telegram to Mr Moss, ■V.H.B., and a memorial to the District KJngtfieer asking for a higher rate of pay. ■ % ■
K[_ \± Thre<^'great- grandsons of Charles "esley'are now clergymen of the Church England.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 7926, 31 July 1886, Page 5
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172THE UNEMPLOYED. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 7926, 31 July 1886, Page 5
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