ONE TREE HILL WORKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 11

ONE TREE HILL WORKS.

IMPROVEMENTS TO ROADS.

USE OF RELIEF LABOUR

"We are working within our estimates and the council could undertake further permanent improvements up to a cost of £SOO provided that relief workers are. employed as much as is practicable," reported the town clerk of One Tree Hill, Mr.-A. Leese, to vthe Borough Council last evening, in submitting a statement of expenditure on public roads. The deputy mayor, Mr. G. L. Slyfield, presided. '

Mr. Leese emphasised the importance of relief labour in ail permanent works authorised and recommended that the council should concentrate as much as possible on carrying such projects through to completion while the No. 5 scheme of relief was in operation. Excluding relief workers' wages, the council had spent £4627 of the year's allocation of £11,495 in a little over four months. Additional permanent wdrks which had been authorised since the adoption of tho estimate were operations at Whcturangi, Belvedere, Ccmpbell and Market Roads, Campbell Crescent and Ranfurly Avenue, involving an expenditure of £1552. Provision had been made for £IOOO, but, in estimating the cost of the particular works, no allowance bad been made for relief wages-and material covered by the relief overhead.