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MEN REMAIN IN CAMP. ADVISED TO GO ELSEWHERE. (Pek United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 20. At a deputation to the Prime Minister to-day from the Alliance of Labour Mr Cook, president, brought up the question of men in camp on stopped railway work on the east coast line, and complained of the position of married women whose husbands had been transferred elsewhere. The single men in the camps had become a burden on the charity of the community. Mr Forbes, in reply, said that arrangements were being made in regard to the married men and their wives and families. As for the single men, he indicated that they should have gone away three months ago when the work was stopped, and he advised them now to go to a place where the Unemployment Act was being administered and work could be found for them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21266, 21 February 1931, Page 14
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