LITTLE CHANGE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 8

LITTLE CHANGE

UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION

255 MEN ON CITY WORKS.

The number of men engaged on unemployment relief, works in the city has been reduced considerably within tlie last few days, as some of the jobs in hand have been finished, and others are so far forward that the gangs have necessarily hadj to be cut down. The total of 255 men at present working on city relief works ,is distributed as foJlc-ws :— Homebush Estate 120, Onelow Boad 55, Evans Bay Boad 19/ Graftdn .Road 18, Anderson Park 16, Mowungton 12, Alexander Road (Mount Victoria) 10, Brooklyn Recreation Ground 5. The Alexander road work will be completed out Tuesday afternoon 'next, and on Monday a small gang will be put on to the construction of the retaining wall at the point where the new road to Kftandallahi is to junction with the Hufct road. It is difficult to judge at thei present time whether unemployment in the city is increasing or decreasing. The calls made for labour at the Corporation yards are usually responded to by twenty or thirty mem who have registered on the books, but many of these are men who renew their applications- time after time.' So far as can be gathered, tin© situation is little better than it was three or four weeks ago. ■ The Mayor's Umemployinent Relief Fund has now readied a total of £4082 5s 9d. Latest donations_ axe :—£l9, raised at a, concert organised by the Wellington Choral Club, £1 from J. T. Patuki, and 8s from "A Friend." .The Rev. Van Staveren has forwaxdtedi a parcel of brawn to the Town Hall.