WELLINGTON UNEMPLOYED
DUTY OF CITY TO CITIZENS. ADVICE FROM MINISTER. In anew of the large number of unemployed in Wellington to-day, and) the number of men discharged from constructional and other works "by the Wellington City Council, would the Minister for Labour, asked Mr A. L. Monteith (Wellington East) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon, take steps to remedy this unfortunate position P The Hon. G. J. Anderson replied! that the department would do all it could; hut he wanted to say that a city of the size of Wellington should do Fomething for its own unemployed, and where it turned men off work, it should try to find them other work to do. The city had a duty to its citizens equal to that of the Labour Department.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11933, 13 September 1924, Page 4
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