WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19719, 19 August 1927, Page 12

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

PT. CHEVALIER AND EPSOM.

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY OF £978.

STREET WORKS AT OTAHUHU.

A Government subsidy of £978 lias been approved for the laying out of Beach Road Reserve, Point Chevalier, as an unemployment relief enterprise. The allocation of the subsidy, on a basis of 50 per cent., is as follows: Beach Reserve, Point Chevalier, £628; sports and playing ground, Point Chevalier, £SO; Epsom drainage, levelling, £3OO. An additional work included in the subsidy was the building of a retaining wall at an estimated cost of £SOO between Harbour View Road and Point Chevalier Beach, such being essential to the first-named section of the scheme. At the meeting of the Auckland City Council last evening, the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, stated in reply to Mr. O. McBrine, that the ordinary rates of wages would be paid to men engaged on the works. The Otahulm Borough Council has received from the Local Government Loans Board to raise a streets improvement loan of £2900 for relief of unemployment. The Government has also notified that it will pay a subsidv of £1164.

The council, at its meeting last evening, decided to engage at once unemployed married men who are resident within the borough and to commence operations with regard to street improvements, the works committee being empowered to act. The pay is to be at ordinary rates. It was distinctly pointed out that a fair day's work was expected, and would be demanded, one councillor remarking that the loan works were, not to lie taken as a rest cure. The council decided to thank Mr. 15. D. McLennan,-M.P., for his assistance in regard to the loan. PUBLIC WORKS OPERATIONS. OPENINGS FOR HUNDRED MEN. Advice has been received by the Auckland branch of the Labour Department that work will be provided for another 100 men during the next few weeks. The men will be divided into sections and will augment those employed in various public works in and around Auckland. PROPOSALS AT HAMILTON. COMMENCEMENT OF SCHEME. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. J HAMILTON. Thursday. The Hamilton Borough Council has been advised of the granting of the subsidy on the £I4OO unemployment relief loan which has beer, raised. At a meeting of the council last evening the engineer was authorised to make a start with the relief works immediately.