POPLAR OUT-POPLARED.
WEST HAM'S GENEROUS DOLE. LONDON, Jan. 27. W r est Ham has. surpassed Poplar in "Poplarism." A family man's unemployment dole, plus out relief, amounts to £3 a week, with free coal. The rates are 24s in the pound, but the municipality owes the Government £1,222,000. An advertisement for a messroom maid at £1 a week aud all found was not attractive enough to.secure a single reply. <,, '*( •/;"'••
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 3
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69POPLAR OUT-POPLARED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 3
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