MORE RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 6

MORE RELIEF

£10,000 LOAN

COUNCIL'S APPLICATION

WORKS PROPOSED

The City Council last evening decided to make application to the Local Government Loans Board for authority to raise a further unemployment relief works loan of £10,000. The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, stated, following the discussion, that the position is that the £10,000 which the council proposes to borrow, given the Loans Board's consent, -will be applied simply for the purpose of providing money for the supervision of the work,; the payment of insurance, and the provision of necessary tools and equipment. The whole of the wages will be supplied under the No. 5 scheme, and the result will be that tho £10,000 will carry labour to the amount of £60,000 or £70,000. For £10,000 of Corporation money, therefore, work of a value of about £70,000 will be obtained, and from a, purely, nionetary point of view there will be a considerable gain to the,. Corporation, while on. the other hand incans will be found to enable 2000 men who would otherwise be without work and means of subsistence to bo kept in employment. The Corporation, added Mr. Hislop, has no other funds available at present for the purpose. It should be clearly understood that the, expenditure of the £10,000 loan moneys, if authorised by the Loans' Board, will result in the commencing of works representing about £70,000 in ail. : STREET WORKS. The list of works proposed is this:— Severn street and Happy Valley road, widening; Volga.street, widening and re-locating; Russell terrace and Liardet street, widening and improvement; Eplleston street and Manchester street, formation play areas; Brooklyn district, improving streets; Corporation yard, general clean up and improvements; Melrose streets, widening and re-grading; EongotaT, formation play area, sand levelling, and claying; Island Bay district, improvement; Hataitai, formation play area; Alexandra, Nevay, Totara, and Tbwnsend roads, widening; Wilberforce . road, re; grading; Tauhinu and Southampton roads, widening; Maupuia road, improvements; Worser Bay, beach improvements and minimising sand drift; Awa and Tio Tio roads, widening and improving, erection of fence; Disley street extension and Wilton'block roads^ formation; Parkvale road and Allington road, widening; Cooper street and Perth street, improvements; Wa,des•town. tram and. Baroa Toad,: widening formation; Orangi-Kaupapa road, regrading; Mount Wakefield, formation road; access way "Kelburn parade to Vivian street, formation; Johnsonville road, widening and improvements; Vogeltown and Mornington district roads, improvements; Terrace Gaol site and Anderson Park, earthworks; general scheme of improvements at Eastern Bays. ' . : . RESERVES DEPARTMENT. Miramar Reserve, Point Halswell, paths and preparation for tree planting, £250; Kharidallah Reserve, paths and preparation for tree planting, £500; Otari Open Air Museum, paths and preparation for . tree planting, £1000; Town Belt, preparation for tree planting, £2000; Nairnyille Park, formation, soiling, and tree planting, £750; Keith Izard Park, extension and tree planting, £500; Air; port, soiling, £1750; Lyall Bay Reserve, soiling and claying, £1500; Karori Park, preparation for tree planting, £250; Newtown Park, preparation for tree planting, £250; Golf Links, Berhampore, preparation for tree planting, £ 750; Tr'ellisick Park, formation of paths and preparation for tree planting, £500----total, £10,000. ..; : ' This is the Reserves Department's share of the £70,000.