HANOVER STREET SEWER.

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 10

HANOVER STREET SEWER.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Or Hayward deserves the thanks of tho residents for bringing this matter forward, ami it is hoped that he will continue in his efforts to have this job completed. P.crhaps the chairman of the Works Committee, who is also chairman of the Unemployed Committee, would let the ratepayers know the average number of men employed on this Hugo undertaking for tho last three months, and what efforts have been made to give the unemployed work on tho job.—l am, etc.. Worker.

August 14. [Cr Wilson replies that as many men have been on the Hanover street sewer job as it can profitably carry. It is not like a new sewer. Tho double.conduit has to bo taken up and replacements nro necessary. It is special work, which a general body of unemployed could not be expected to handle. But as a fact, tho Drainage Board now has more men employed than it ever had before, and as to tho Hanover street job, if it does not lend itself to a big gang, it at any rate eases tho situation to some extent by giving work to men who might otherwise swell the ranks of tho unemployed.—Ed. E.S.]