MEN OUT OF WORK
UNEMPLOYMENT IN NEW PLYMOUTH. BOROUGH TO BE APPROACHED. Between 10 a.m. on Tuesday and 3 p.m. yesterday 97 unemployed registered at the offices of the Taranaki Workers’ Council in New Plymouth. Forty-six of them are married men and between them they have 144 dependants. One family concerned numbers seven and there are several of six and several of five. “Most of them have been out a considerable time, and a number have done practically nothing for several months,” said the president of the council (Mr. R. Eulton) to a Daily News reporter yesterday. A few of them had had a couple of days at the Moturoa freezing works, he added. He was confident as many more had not yet registered, but the registrations would continue. Most of the unemployed were general labourers, but there were six carpenters, five lorry drivers and a few painters. It was proposed to call a meeting of the men, said Mr. Fulton. It was probable that the Borough Council would be approached and urged to push along the work authorised by the recent loan poll,
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1927, Page 8
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