EXPENDITURE IN LOWER HUTT
During September the Lower Hutt Borough Council has employed US four-day men, 291 three-day men, and 103 two-day men, a total of 572, under No. 5 Scheme, as against a total of 534 in the previous month: The men have been employed on the following works: —Road formation -in White's Line, east of Waiwetu Stream, road berm3 and paths, Wainui Hill road, Gracefield sewemge, Gracefield water supply, Western Hutt road widening, and cleaning the catchpit of the Western Hills drain. The expenditure in the borough under the No. 5 Scheme during the last fortnight is as follows, the figures in parentheses being the total expenditure up to date: Government wages, £974 Is (£11,452 10s 6d)j borough wages* and supervision, £172 6s Id (£1717 13s sd); materials ex stock, £228 10s 3d (£5(52 0s lid); plant hire and cartage, £70 10s 4d (£748 10s); insurance, (£444 13s 9d); total, £1445 7s 8d (£14,925 8s 7dh The total of the Government expenditure on wages is £11,432 1M «, and the total expenditure by the borough £34/2 18s Id. _____—— ' "■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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179EXPENDITURE IN LOWER HUTT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 10
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