UNEMPLOYED.
- , TO THE EDITOR. ' Sib,—l see a letter .in your correspondence columns of March 1 signed “Live and'Let Live,” which ought to have been signed “Dog in the Manger.” The writer "and a great many more men who were walking about last, winter and part of the summer, could, have stopped up at Cheviot as long as the work lasted, but were not satisfied with the pay and left. I do not know what he calls good pay, unless it moans six shillings per day and eight shillings for skilled labour. Those were the rates of pay for day work. How could any man with a family of seven or eight put by anything to tide him over a long lapse of idleness, even if he had been in work eighteen months? It seems to ma that your correspondent wants to call Mr Lomas’s attention to his grievance, but dare not go to the labour agent himself.—l am, &c., *HBNEY BOND.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10595, 2 March 1895, Page 6
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161UNEMPLOYED. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10595, 2 March 1895, Page 6
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