SPONGING ON MAYOR’S UNEMPLOYMENT FUND
NUMBERS ON INCREASE Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. The Alayor’s fund for the unemployed, which was started with an objective of £4,000, has reached over £6,500, but notwithstanding the fact that hundreds of men have been given work, the number of alleged unemployed is greater than ever. Yesterday 170 more names were, given in. The inference is that outsiders are flocking into Wellington in the hope of sharing in the fund, or that men on casual jobs are throwing them up to procure more permanent billets on relief works. _____
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 13
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