RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED
WORK ON ROADS URGED.
HIGHWAYS,BOARD’S FUNDb.
Christchurch, March 7.
At a meeting of the Citizens Unemployment Committee to-day it was resolved on the motion of Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., that as there were large sums of money at the disposal of the Main Highways Board they should be utilised for the purpose of improving and extending our main highways, thereby giving employment to hundreds of men, and using funds at their disposal for the purpose for which they were collected. It was stated that the Highways Board had half a million of unexpended South Island funds in hand. ASHBURTON COUNTY ’S PROTEST. Ashburton, March 7. The County Council passed a resolution protesting against the constitution and finding of the committee on unemployment and in the imposition of any further burden ou land. The commission was not representative of tho farmers, and its recommendations were such as could not be borne by tho farming community. Many farm-
ers who pay Ihe special land ta> could employ two men with they would have tn pay tn Sir Joseph Ward’s scheme.” The council was of
opinion the scheme will tend to crease unemployment.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 7
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