RELIEF JOBS.
POSITION OF COUNTIES. "I understand that in future all relief works undertaken will have, to be approved by the Unemployment Board, and an estimate formulated for each job before the works may be put in hand. This will cause a good deal oi extra work, and it is doubtful whether the council should not consider dispensing with all the men, with the exception of locals, if this policy ie to be fol-' lowed," reported the engineer, Mr. L. F. Faram, at to-day'e meeting of the Waitemata County Council. The engineer added that a slight decrease was still noticeable in the numbers of relief workers engaged in the county. The average number employed was 614 on roads and seven on farms
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 145, 21 June 1935, Page 8
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