UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS
INVERCARGILL RELIEF SCHEME. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, July 3. The Returned Soldidrs’ Association recently approached the Town Council and proposed a scheme to finance work to absorb unemployed ex-soldiers, the association providing a su*m oi £330, a further fund being available if necessary by the council subsidising the amount. The council accepted the scheme and adopted a programme of improvements to reserves on which twenty ex-soldiers were set to work to-day. Tho number is likely to be largely increased. _ If many men offer t/lio work will he given on four days a week in order that relief may be continued as long as possible.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 5
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106UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 5
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