£10,000 GRANT SOUGHT
SUBSIDY ON CITY WORKS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") DUNEDIN, This Day. The City Council .will bo asked by the Mayor (Mr. R. S. Black) to raise a loan of £5000 for the relief of unemployment conditional on the- Unemployment Board providing a subsidy of £2 for £1. The Mayor has sent the following letter on the subject to Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Secretary of the Unemployment Board:—"Assuming that the figures remain at 700 unemployed in Duncdin, it would cost approximately .£I3OO ,in sustenance, but as the winter approaches and farm, and seasonal work diminishes the figures will be.well over 1000 unemployed with an average of two dependants, which will mean a huge sum to pay out in sustenance for which there is no return. I suggest that your board makes a grant of at least £10,000 as a subsidy on a £2 for £1 basis for works that we may put in hand in the city."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1931, Page 11
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