UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHRISTCHURCH
LABOUR PARLLA ME XTA RIA N S APPEAL TO MINISTERS. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 18. According to a telegram dispatched i to the Prime Minister by Messrs Sullivan, Armstrong, Howard and McCombs, M.P’s., unemployment is again in evidence in Christchurch. The telegram reads: “There are well over one hundred unemployed registered with the Labour Bureau in . j Christchurch, and more with the labour unions. We urge you to go on immediately with public works in Christchurch. We suggest that the immediate problem could be helped at once by commencing the West Christchurch, Richmond, Opawa, West Lyttelton and boys’ high schools. Provision should also at once be. made for more permanent ■ work during the winter months, as i unemployment is apparently going to ibe acute.” A telegram has also been i sent to the Minister of Education urg- ■ I ing that work on the schools men- : ' tioned be commenced at once. A simi- ,■ lar telegram has been sent to the . Minister of Public Works,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18785, 19 May 1923, Page 5
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