THE UNEMPLOYED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 601, 1 September 1909, Page 5

THE UNEMPLOYED.

WABESTOWN :ROAD COMPLETED.,' "The money is giving out, but there are Btill any amount or unemployed about," woo tho kernel of yestorday's report regarding , tho unemployed, : , One important bit of work :":.'.;■ was completed yesterday—(too; improvement of tho Wadcstown lload, This work has beca one of the' suburb's "crying needs" for ten,,. - years past< The'sum of £400 was allocated: by fHo committee; for tho work, and it', 1 , ia ' coinbidental that tho money ;aud tho- work ; should havo finished up? at the 6amo time,,' The. improvements effected consist ; of tho widening of'.the! road by ; sovon or eight foefcv at ■' its narrowest' pbinta,. > and rounding' /off the rather.dangerous corners' that bavoniado',; a drivodowu ; the ;\V'adestbwn Road at night \,v a somewhat perilous, venture'. . It is ' auitb a -'/■. different! proposition, now, : Tlo deotnc light ;'-'- poles havo been removed to-the edgo of tha';. ; road, and all is •: plain, sailing, and; much' ;•' easier going. One bad bit still remains—. : ,:, ■ that narrow sectioirTvliich runs through tho first' cuttingßear |' Mr. 'Tolhuret'a. property, ':'■; The sum of'£oo isnecdedby'thocominittee;' , to .remove'tho hill- on the orio-Yido..'..,', Tlm,'-' questioh'is asked whether'there/is any;pe> : ; ; ' son sufficiently, interested .in' the ;i ment of tbe'road .to donate,such a sum-and/ provide a little x more ■ work for tho honest out-of-work. ; ' '•'/• ... .. / • ' ' v

Work is' still progressing merrily on .tbo"-!'-' Mount';-Victoria: trail, and.at tho Victoria'.'-'/ College. Levels were being taken yesterday at 'the' college, 'so^ithat-the. 'work'' of':cs-/> cavating for /thoifoundataons,'- of' the''now)', wing miglit.be gone on'with in'.a few days.'; The secretary of tho fund (Mr. Geo. Willis) states that ho still: gets eight or ninoappli-'., cations for, Work a day, but as there is no:new work offering thoy all havo to, bo. ror'/ fused.'-There is ;still: about, £500 to do o*»; v ' pended. ../-.-..'. .-.-,"/.. v;;' : -'/,'.'- .'-<:'; ij ; ;--:'/■ y'—''