“GENTLE ANNIE”
AND WANGANUI UNEMPLOYED. MINISTER ON THE POSITION. Why were the unemployed in the Wanganui electorate Being refused work on the Telief works in the district at Gentle Annie Hill ? asked Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., in the’ House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. The Hon. J. G. Coates: It is news to me that that is the ease. Mr Veitch: I assure you that it is so. . Mr Coates stalled that what had hap. pened in regard' to the Gentle Annie Formation was that the question had arisen whether; there should he a tnnnel or a -cutting, or ' whether they should follow the present grade lime; and until that point was settled, the work had not been poshed on with. Jle had just received a report that it had bran decided to put a cutting throo jh the saddle to reduce the. grades to about one in fifteen. As to what men were employed on the work he did not know; hut no doubt if there were many unemployed in Wanganui they would be put on that work—married men, of course.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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