RELIEF WORKS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 12, 14 July 1930, Page 11

RELIEF WORKS

WAIRARAPA ROADS

(By Telejraph.)

(Special to "Tho Evening Post.")

MASTBRTON, This i#)ay

Tile Masterton County Council on Saturday received a reply from the Prime Minister (the Hon. G-. W. Forbes) to its telegram of Thursday stating that the unemployment situation was extremely acute in Masterton and asking what subsidy would be made available on relief works. Mr. Forbes telegraphed that the Main Highways Board was unable to increase the allocation, but was agreeable to unemployment relief works being undertaken on main highways if the amount involved was saved from other items within the allocation. If the council desired to proceed with ' relief works on county roads, proposals should be submitted to the Public Works District Engineer, and, if his report was favourable, the subsidy' would be available from tho roads vote. It is considered here that the Prime Minister has made no reply to the council's question regarding a subsidy, but appears to imply that any funds provided by the Government for relief work? will be withdrawn from existing allocations to the county on the main highways vote, or the roads vote (for county roads), as tho case may be.