UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20604, 1 July 1930, Page 15

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF.

PROPOSAL AT MOUNT EDEN.

SPECIAL LOAN AND SUBSIDY

Having received advice that tho Government will subsidise works undertaken with special relief of unemployment loans to the. extent of £2 for £1 for labour, the Mount Eden Borough Council decided las? evening to make application for a loan which will provide a number of tho unemployed in tho district with work for twelve months. The proposed work is a considerable amount of excavation in Landscape Road West, the cost being estimated at £2327. The surfacing of the road in bitumen is to bo done at the borough's expense, and the total cost of the work was estimated at about £:j000.

Tho .Mayor, Mr. E. H. Potter, said there were a number of deserving cases in the borough, and there was a class of work on which the unemployed could be engaged. He had communicated with Mr. G, C. Murms. member of Parliament for the district, who had been informed by tho Minister of Public Works that the subsidy would be available. Mr. Munns' telegram stated that it would be necessary for the council to have such a loan sanctioned by tho Local Government Loans Board, and in order to save time the proposals should be submitted to the district engineer of the Public Works Department at Auckland, who would investigate and report to Wellington as early as possible regarding tho loan and subsidy.

Mr. Potter said (hat by means of tho subsidy it would bo possible to complete the work considerably under tho previous estimate. It v.as a fine residential area, and ho was satisfied that after the work a large number of houses would be built. Fifty or 60 houses would give a return of £6OO or £7OO in rates. lie could not say how many men would be employed. Mr. (1. L. Taylor suggested that it would be advisable to proceed with other works of a similar nature while the subsidy was available.

It was decided to hold a special meeting of (he council next Monday to make application to tho Local Government Loans Board for its approval of a loan, and the engineer was instructed tc> prepare information of two other works which might be undertaken.