WASTE.

Evening Star, Issue 23653, 13 August 1940, Page 2

WASTE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Kindly grant me space to ask the employment authorities what is being done to avoid waste. The amount of taxpayers’ money being frittered away in the borough of Green Island something which demands an investigation, For the past two years or more 40 or 50 men seem to bo continually employed round and about the streets of the district. When one remembers, that the total length of streets in tho district (exclusive of the main highways) is about nine or 10 miles, it seems as if anything up to £17,000 or £20,000 lias been paid cut in wages for work done on the aforementioned streets. This is equal to about £2,000 for each and every mile. On top of this wo need to add the council’s own funds. Since the commencement of the war and after this huge expenditure, one would surelv consider it time to call it •• a day.” But no. I believe men are being sent out from Dunedin. Brighton, and even as far afield as Allanton. I notice that at a meeting of the Taieri River Trust tho employment authorities offered a certain number of men for a certain number of weeks at a subsidy of £2 per man per week. One would consider the work performed by this body would be much more important to the country, and yet n subsidy of only £2 is offered as against a full 100 per cent, in this district, which amounts to £4 10s to over £5 per man per week. 52 weeks of the year, year in and year out. One of these days in the not too distant future, the ratepayers will know that more has b'een spent on the streets in three years than the total cost of the complete installation of the drainage scheme.—l am. etc., Avoid Waste. August 13.