AFFLUENCE TO PENURY
PITIFUL PLIGHT OF WELSH UNEMPLOYED. A TRAGIC CHANGE. Australian nrd N Association (Received March 15, 8.45 p.m.> LONDON, March 15. Unemployment has produced a tragic change in thousands of South Welsh homes. War-time earnings enabled the people to live in comparative affluence. They furnished their homes in some degree of luxury. Now 40,000 are idle in Rhondda Valley alone. Acute distress exists among large families. The “Daily Chronicle’’ state© that the reverse of fortune is pitiful. Pianos have been sold for £l2, and good kitchen chairs for Is. The collier always insisted on buying the best available piano. Now tho same homes are often reduced to bare requirements of furniture. Soma of these have even begun to vanish.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10850, 16 March 1921, Page 6
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121AFFLUENCE TO PENURY New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10850, 16 March 1921, Page 6
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