FOUR MONTHS’ WORK
Employment for 6517
Unemployed
DETAILS OF COMMITMENTS
A statement that complete success had met his efforts to provide four months’ full-time work for some 7000 men was made in an interview last evening by the Acting-Minister of Labour, Hon. P. C. Webb. He said that these men, who were all from the register of eligible unemployed, had been mainly in receipt of sustenance. "Commencing in June the commit; ments that have been entered into with local bodies up to date will give four months’ employment to 6517 men,” the Minister said; "Of this number 3696 are in the North Island and 2821 in the South Island.” The works upon which these men were to be employed and the numbers engaged on each class of work were briefly summarised as follows: — Formation, metalling, widening, etc., of roads and streets, 2924. Levelling, formation, Improvements, etc., to parks, domains, school grounds, and hospital grounds, 1710. Drainage, river clearing, river protection, etc., 706. Tree planting, 517. Footpath construction, kerbing, channelling, etc,, 434. Miscellaneous, 226. Total, 6517.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 10
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175FOUR MONTHS’ WORK Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 10
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