CITY WORK PLAN.
EXPENDITURE OF £160,000. WAGES AT STANDARD RATES. IMPORTANT CHANGE IN RELIEF POLICY. A proposal to spend £160,000 on capital works and to pay standard wages, instead of relief rates, was discussed at a special meeting of the Auckland City Council this afternoon. The proposals include spending £59,000 on two new reservoirs, £44,000 on stormwater drainage in the city area, £45,000 for a new municipal office block and £12,500 for the extension of Upper Queen Street to the New North Road. The works committee, in making the recommendations for the expenditure, declared that the time had, arrived when the City Council should endeavour to carry out works as ordinary works and not as relief works. By such means allied trades would receive impetus, thus relieving a strain on the unemployment funds. The Unemployment Board is to be asked what assistance it is prepared to give.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 285, 1 December 1932, Page 7
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