ROAD IMPROVEMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 17

ROAD IMPROVEMENTS

PROPOSALS IN OTAHUHU RELriLF SUBSIDY GRANTED Approval of the Otabuhu Borough Council's proposal to reconstruct the surface of Princes Street, over a length cf 36 chains, and construct storm-water drainage in Golf Avenue as unemployment relief works on a subsidy basis was received at the council meeting on Thursday. The Unemployment Board's officer in Auckland stated in a letter that the two schemes had been approved on condition that standard wages were paid to relief workers employed for a 40hour we»k. The Mayor, Mr. S. R. Petrie, said the labcur cost of the Princes Street job had been estimated by the foreman at £169. The Unemployment Board would grant a subsidy equal to half the wages, and employment could thus be found for six men for eight weeks on full time. The total cost of the job was estimated at £456, and the actual f-ost to the council would be about £370. On the motion of the Mayor the estimate for the job was referred to the Finance Committee, with power to act. Consideration of the other scheme was deferred. . , , , Advicu was received that a further grant otf £2-500 for the employment of men on No. 5 scheme in Sturges Park had been authorised by the Unemployment Board.