SINGLE MEN'S CAMPS.
ABOUT liiO UNEMPLOYED AT WORK. In the single men's camps ni Lewis Pass, on the Lake Sumner road, and at Hill Top about 150 unemployed men are now accommodated, &aid Mr F. Langbein, district engineer of Public Works, yesterday. Mr Langbcin said not many men were coming forward to go into the camps. if more were offering, the Public Works department would organise a second camp at Lewis Pass, and possibly a third one. The widening of the IIil! Top road nas now almost completed, he added, and the men would toon be moved to near Lako Forsyth, where the road would he widened and its alignment improved.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20807, 17 March 1933, Page 17
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