AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
■Received February 6, 10 p.m. SYDNEY, February 6. A Labour Council deputation urging the Premier to relieve unemployment stated that there, were approximately 10,000 out of work in N.S.W. The Premier confessed that shortage of fund* and difficulty in obtaining loans in England necessitated,retrenchment in public works. MELBOURNE, February 6 " At the request of the Imperial Authorities, the Government is arranging to send a thousand labouri ers t0 Britain for constructional work in connection with the war. The men will be regarded as civilians j and will he exempt from compulsory service. The Commonwealth steamers have earned half a million sterling to date.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 7 February 1917, Page 5
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