UNEMPLOYMENT.
TO THE BACK BLOCKS. / Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 25. Tlie Labour Department is sending 20 bush men from Wellington on Monday to work on the Waitatara block, while other parties from different parts of the Dominion are following in the course of a few days. In addition to these, 100 men are being sent to Tekaraka railway works at Gislwrne, 100 to Stratford railway works, 100 to the Broken River end of the midland railway, and 40 to the Nelson end. These men will be despatched in a few days. So far as possible they will be sent to the work nearest to the districts in which they reside. It is expected that the work now available will meet the requirements of the bulk of tho men at present idle. POSITION IN DtTNEDTN. DUXEDTN. Jim- 2-7. There are on the hooks of tl» n Labour Department the names of 150' men, mostly single, who want work.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13939, 26 June 1909, Page 6
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158UNEMPLOYMENT. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13939, 26 June 1909, Page 6
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