FINDING WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 12

FINDING WORK

SUGGESTION BY MAYOR

SIXTY MEN OS NEW GAS MAIN

As was indicated yesterday, the City Council is not* able to provide relief works for the solving of tho unemployment difficulty until certain formalities in connection with the raising of the special loan have been complied with, and the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) to-day suggested that private employers and many citizens who do not ordinarily employ labour could do a good deal to assist in the meantime, by employing one or two men in gardening work cleaning up, etc. .

*¥i r" £-°.T rf m"ked tfaat the action of the Wellington Gas Company in putting under way the laying of the new twelve-inch main to Wadeslown, Ngaio and Khandallah, a work which in the usual course of events would not have been undertaken in winter months had helped materially, for about sixty men were in that work found regular employment. The main branches off from Willis street, up Aro street, Jiaroa road along Wilton road, to Wadestcwn, and across the valley to Ngaio and Khandallah, probably four or live miles in all.' That work was a .valuable.contribution at the present time, and it was likely enough that other works could also be started in the same way Mr. Troup remarked that fortunately the waterfront was exceedingly busy at the moment, but the rush there could not be expected to last. Within a few weeks paving work would Cease for the season, but the men would be switched over to footpath renewal. As a preliminary to street surfacing, said Mr. Troup, many footpaths had had to be cat across for the renewal of old services, end in other lengths the whole footpath had to be raised or lowered to conform with the new roadway level. It was only reasonable that footpath reconditioning should be a charge against the loan. Not only would the paving crews be kept in regular work on footpath renewals, but they would be kept together for a, straight-away start when the road paving season opened again next spring.

TEMPORARY WORK NEXT WEDNESDAY.

It is probable-that the City Council may be able to afford some temporary relief by Wednesday next in the employment of a number of men in gorse grubbing on city property.