UNEMPLOYMENT IN NAPIER.
WARNING ISSUED. Per Press Association. NAPIER, May 18. In view of tho continued arrival in this district of unemployed from outside, tho Mayor, Mr J. Vigor Brown, has issued the following warning:— “I wish to warn all workers against coming to Napier to look for work. We have over 1000 workers, married and single, out of work at present, and many of the jobs where workers are engaged at present will soon peter out. Nearly all th(» funds of the charitable organisations are exhausted, and these organisations are at their wits’ ends where to look for more.
“Botween 70 and 80 per cent, of the cost of tho buildings being erected is for material, and about 20 per cent, for labour. Under the circumstances I must ask people not to advise workers to come to Napier, as they will be worse off here than in their home towns. People not living in the town cannot have any idea of the scarcity of work.
I deem it my duty to make this statement to save adding to the distress at present in the town through want of employment.” •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 143, 19 May 1932, Page 3
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