UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 596, 26 August 1909, Page 6

UNEMPLOYED.

THE -RELIEF WORKS,

' " WABESTOWN EOAD COMPLETED.' •'••Tlw.- men who have been working on the widening and straightening of'the Wadeslown j Boad completed their work last, night, "and .were. k"r : . P ai d . About a dozen man are Toeing kept on to do certain fimshing-off work, such as •i channels, and . laying metal './ V/ men havelbeen employed: on rflie above K&■ ' twenty-five': going ; on' week 'i.. iboW. v men got in' three work; and- they .will now have, to seek fresh r.- fields, as there are men on the committeoV not.yet, had P'. work.. A.number, of AVadcstown residents } waited -on the secretary of tho Belief t, • .Committee and suggested that the first cutting \' Irm < road • should '-bo removed altogether.' . This would.cost. -£60, and the committeo, • although .willing to carry out the work, has 1 no funds _ to' do it with. The electric' light r.-ri, : poles, which are .now standing in the middle h ; of the'road since # the widening, 1 are about to-be.' finifted back 'to thev'side-of/ the road by the, ' Electric Lighting, Department. ? '• It is expected that the City Council will be r.asked to-night by tho. Reserves Committee toj . ~ inaka a giant ;in aid of the Anderson Park tSK-^.Sforks.,-v : - ■' j. - The pay-sheet for the Mount .Victoria; road ; gang during the past week totalled i!GO 15s.' 9d;, i s an average of £1 18s. 6d. per man The f... : -labourers at Victoria College earned .£l2l tot • ir® 1 , 1, i~eek, and the tree-planters at Kelburno ' ■ Park earned .£2 per man, or -a-total- of- JE2O .VEs..v6d;:.^\;;--;,'■) v-'V,,-, v,-/.