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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1664, 20 January 1904, Page 23

During the month of December 117 persons were assisted by the Department of Labour. The majority of the unemployed Avere, of course, unskilled. It is noticeable that only, one bricklayer asked for help. He belonged to Auckland, and the cause of his failure to get work Avas attributed to slackness of trade. The poisons assisted in the Wellington; district have been classified as follows: —Oho clerk, carpenter, painter, engineer and engine-driver; eight farm hands and forty-one labourers.

The chairman of the Marlborough High School Board, Avho is an exM.H.R., is reported by the “Express” to have made a fruitless attempt to see the Premier Avith regard to the additional accommodation required at the school for the reception of pupils under the new system of free secondary education. Ho Avai ted some hours in the vicinity of the Premier’s room, and had to cow/'i rrvay Avithout an interview. He had, hoAvever. forwarded a letter to the Premier, asking for a grant of £2OO, practically a £1 for £1 subsidy on the expenditure authorised by the Board. No reply had been received to his letter.