AUCKLAND’S UNEMPLOYED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20288, 22 December 1927, Page 12

AUCKLAND’S UNEMPLOYED.

HOSPITAL BOARD ALARMED. HEAVY DRAIN ON ITS RESOURCES. I Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 21. <• The members of the Auckland Hospital Board view with alarm the present unemployment position and the heavy drain on fh'e board’s resources for cbarilablo aid,” (be chairman stated at yesterday’s meeting. ” The sum of £22,000 was placed oil ihe estimates for relief, but that sum has already been spent, with four months of the financial year still to run.” He said he anticipated that such expenditure would total £30,000 by March 31. The board had commenced the year with an overdraft of £131,000, and it would finish with on ( > for £30,000. Mr M. u. Savage said that they should draw the Government's attention to the matter. There wm-e 500 able-bodied men in Auckland at Christmas lime unable to find work, and surely that we. ■■■ m t tinhoard's respon.-lbility. The Chairman said he had been unable to get, into touch with Mr Coates, but be would see him on his return to Auckland.

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