UNEMPLOYMENT
BAD WINTER AHEAD,
Every year, about the beginning of winter, the unemployed of this city wait upon the Mayor to ask that the council provide work of some kind for them. Although summer is not yet finished, the Mayor (Mr J. P. Luke) is having numerous callers in search of employment, and the prediction that a bad winter is ahead seems to bo a true one. In an interview to-day Mr Luke stated that ai . groat -many of the searchers after work have, returned to the town from' the. country, having found it impossible to find employment in either place. iVor the next month, at least the City Council will have no room for absorbing surplus labour. When the estimates for the coming year’s work are ready (some time in April) more workers may he required. A -report on the works, which it is proposed, to submit to the ratepayers for loan purposes, will soon be available, but the Mayor warns the unemployed not to place too great reliance on these proposals being adopted. __
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8683, 17 March 1914, Page 8
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175UNEMPLOYMENT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8683, 17 March 1914, Page 8
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