UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1931, Page 4

UNEMPLOYMENT

LOWER HUTT POSITION

WORKS 'SCHEDULE APFKOVED

Tho following schcdulo of works totalling £6330 was approved by tin; Lower Hutt Borough Council last evening to bo done under No. 5 unemployment scheme:— Reducing crown, Wanvotu road, £1500; grubbing gorso, sanitation reserve, Seaview road, £80; widening Western Hutt road = with possible reduction of crown in places, £.50; improvement of worst corner on Tirolianga road, £60; Riverside drive-, clearing gorso, and trimming bank between Riverside, drive and the Waiwctu Stream throughout l^ojl Block, £500; Burnsido-R-iversklo drive, clearing gorso and trimming bank, with minimum of,!; road formation, £300; clearing and levelling reserve, Massoy avonue, etc., £300; providing entrance to Seaview tanks, £.30; improving To Momo Creole, £GOj improvemeut of corners, Norman* dale road, £300; improvements to Graceficld road berms and Grncefield drain, £300; continuation of reduction of road cambers, Wilford aottloment, £200; continuation of street berm reduction and .clearing, £300; total, £4180; with'the addition- of Black Creek work, £150, and clearing and sowing1 berms, Government subdivision, £2000;' grand total, £6330. The Works Committee reported that It was impossible to find work without an1 expenditure of council funds by way of transport, plant, etc. Tho schedule would entail an .expenditure of £1000 by the council. ; It was decided to go on with tho work. ■■ . ~ ' ' ts- . In answer to a question by Councillor Patrick, the Mayor said it was hoped to find tho £1000 out of tho-accumu-lated funds, and, if not, ho was sure the Government would give permission to the council for an over-expenditure this year. The Mayor reported thaf, the latest unemployment figures"" for'the borough were 284, both married and. single. Of these, 240 had been placed, and it was hoped to place the other 44 within a few days. Sir Alexander Roberts said that it was a heavy tax on the engineering department 'to. organise £6000 worth of work, and s Jhe' ■ doparfment was to be cong^'atulateiii'uppn^hajyirig'' successfully carried'-out,its dutiosl;.'':,,, .^', , '