CITY WORK PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 74, 29 March 1933, Page 5

CITY WORK PLAN.

STORMWATER DRAINS.

HARBOUR BOARD APPROVES

FINAL AUTHORITY SOUGHT.

Referring to the City Council's decision to expend £71,346 on capital works "as ordinary undertakings and not as-relief schemes," the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchison, stated this morning that the Auckland Harbour Board had approved tho stormwater drainage scheme for the lower end of the city. It was now only necessary to obtain the City Council's ■ final authority to proceed with the work, seeing that the Unemployment Board had refused the extra subsidy of £1350, the proceeds of the wages tax, which it was considered when the scheme was proposed would be handed to the board.

Tho plans for the Mount Hobson reservoir, said Mr. Hutchison, were practically completed, so that the whole work could be put in hand at an early date.

The Mayor's original plan was to expend. £160,000, but the rise in the late of exchange and other financial considerations caused him to modify the scheme and ask for the expenditure of £44,346 for stormwater drainage and £27,000 for the Mount Hobson reservoir. The Unemployment Board will contribute £11,652 and the City Council £59,694.

A report in connection with the scheme will be placed before to-morrow's meeting of the council.

The men will be selected for the work according to the following plan drawn up by the Works Committee and approved by the City Council:—

(1) All applicants must be resident in the city and. have been employed on city No. 5 relief works prior to January 1, 1933. ,

(2) Men selected must be experienced or otherwise capable of performing efficiently the work for which they are selected.

(3) Amongst men complying with conditions 1 and 2, preference shall be given to ratepayers, according to the number of their dependants, four-day men coming first.