THE UNEMPLOYED.
RELIEF EXPENDITURE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. April 4. In commenting on a statement by Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., that Dunedin had not received itk fair share of unemployment expenditure by the Railway Department and that all extra men at the Hillside workshops had been dismissed before Christmas, Hon. W. B. Taverner, Minister of Railways, stated to-day that from October 30 to March 1 last, £32,737, or over 20 per cent of the total amount, was spent in the Dunedin district. The position in regard to extra hands was that on December 23 there were 112 additional tradesmen and 40 unskilled men at the workshops. Of these, only 35 tradesmen were released and seven had since been engaged again. - On March 29 there were 26 additional tradesmen and 34 unskilled men at Hillside, and 25 tradesmen and 106 unskilled workers at other railway works in the vicinity of Dunedin. As the result of investigations by Publio Works officers the Public Works Department would place additional men there.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 6
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169THE UNEMPLOYED. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 6
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