PUBLIC WORKS
NEW ZEALAND EXPENDITURE. • OVER £4,500,000 LAST YEAR. t Special to “Northern Advocate.”} WELLINGTON, This Day. Official returns show that expenditure on public works is being maintained at well over £4,500,000 a year, this being the sum for the past financial year. Although there are practically no spectacular works in hand, a great deal of useful development work is being done. Thex-e are 11,500 men employed at present on public works throughout New Zealand, and this total, although far below the high numerical level during boom years, is at least equal to the number employed last winter. More than half of the present total is employed on relief works, mostly at standard rates, there being 6,106 men engaged by the Public Works Department under arrangement with the_ Unemployment Board. Both expenditure and unemployment keep close to the proportion to the population in various centres in the four main centres. For instance, the distribution of employment on the public works generally, excluding railways, maintenance and municipal activities is as follows: —Auckland, 1.536; Wellington. 1,350: Christchurch, 1,193; Dunedin, 843.
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Northern Advocate, 12 August 1935, Page 6
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