RELIEF WORKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 8

RELIEF WORKS.

THE VICTORIA COLLEGE . PROPOSAL. CHAMPED QUARTERS LIMIT NUMBERS TO BE EMPLOYED. A conference between representatives of * the Citizens Relief Fund and the Victoria College Council, respectively, took place at ihe College grounds on Saturday afternoon. The City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) and one of his assistants (Mr. A. Patterson) were in attendance for consultative purposes. After an inspection of the grounds had been made, and various suggestions discussed, it was decided to adopt the City Engineer's suggestion to have the entrance to the college grounds improved, and to remove a portion of the hill at the rear of the gymnasium. Authority was given to get an insurance policy against accident to cover the whole of the men who will be employed on the works. The main body of men was instructed to be ready to make a start this afternoon, and a few were put on this morning to do preliminary work. The City Engineer estimates that forty is the maximum number that can be employed on the work at the college, the accommodation being limited. There are twenty-five "urgent" cases on the relief fund secretary's list, and it was arranged that these would be put on in the first batch. The remainder of t>e forty_ were selected by ballot. This batch of men is to work for a week, and at tho encl of that time they must make way for another lot. The Engineer's estimate of tho cost of the works at the college is £600. It is recognised that something more must be done in the matter of providing work, there being sume 300 men on the list of those seeking work. There are two or three likely works suggested. One that has been outlined in The Post is the City Engineer's scheme for a mountain road from Constable-street to Mount Victoria ; a second one is the Mayor's scheme for planting trees on the Town Belt ,• and a third is the proposal to form a park at Maranui, on the area of eight acres presented to the City Council by the late H. D. Crawford. _ . A TRADES UNION GRANT. "At the monthly meeting of the Board of 'Management of the Wellington Typographical Union, held on Saturday evening, the sum of £3 was voted to the Unemployed Relief Fund, and a resolution was carried recommending the halfyearly meeting of members to make a further donation of £7, making the total donated £10. The rules of the union precluded the board from expending more than £3, which accounts for the board making the above recommendation. It may be mentioned that the union has paid out something like £70 in unemployed allowances to its own members up to the present date.