UNEMPLOYED RELIEF.
ACTIVITIES IN ASHBURTON. ALLOCATION FOR NEXT WEEK. 1, 2}, 3,} DAYS GRANTEJD. The Ashburton Local Unemployment Committee met this afternoon, when the Mayor (Mr W. H. Woods) presided. The request of the Winslow School Committee, asking for three men for three weeks to carry out ground-clean-ing was granted. The secretary (Mr W. Patterson) reported that men available for next week were as follow:—Class A, 81 (last working week 76) ; Class B, 295 (305); Class C, 154 (155); total 530. The sum required to give full work was £lOll 0s 6d, and the allocation was £730 6s. It was agreed to give one, two and a-half and three and a-half days' work to the respective groups.
It was reported that there were 27 men on the building scheme, in which the total cost of work being carried out .was £12,759 4s 6d, incruding £4290 8s 6d cost of labour, that there were 483 men on the No. 5 Scheme register against 463 at this time last year, and that men on No. 4a Scheme were 8 married and 55 single. Four applications under the No. 4a Scheme were considered, and all were granted.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 256, 10 August 1933, Page 6
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