THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
A GLUT OF LABOUR. [BY TKLKGIUrU.— PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] Gkeymocth, Tuesday. Navvies and other hard working men continue to come here looking for work on the railway line, but are unable to obtain any. Mo3t of them have spent all they had coming here. About 200 are reported to ba camped in the neighbourhood of the Twelve Mile Bush, who cannot get work. They keep coming and going constantly. Some get a few weeks work, and are then knocked off, others being taken on in their place. The men say they were induced to come here through seeing advertisements in the papers stating that pick and shovel men were wanted on the aj inland Railway.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8035, 24 August 1887, Page 5
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117THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8035, 24 August 1887, Page 5
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