MEN PUT OFF WORK
City Council Loan Funds Becoming Absorbed By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 30. As funds are absorbed and jobs finished, men employed by the city council on non-perrnanent street improvement works under subsidy on loan moneys raised about three years ago are being put off. Most of the works in the Avondale district having been completed, 78 men were signed off last week, leaving about 600 still engaged, mainly in the Tarnaki district. A few more men may have to be put off in about two months, and it is expected that the Tamaki works will be completed toward the end of the year. “There is nothing sinister in the men being put off,” said Mr. J. A. 0. Allum, chairman of the works committee tonight. “They are not being put off as a result of any policy of the council but only because there is no more work or money to employ them. The permanent staff is not affected, but only those men who have been working on loan and subsidised works. There are still many jobs in hand and I hope the work will last a long time.'
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 287, 31 August 1938, Page 6
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193MEN PUT OFF WORK Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 287, 31 August 1938, Page 6
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