WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21497, 22 May 1933, Page 11

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

DRAINAGE OF CROWN LANDS NORTH AUCKLAND PROPOSAL [from our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Saturday Accompanied by representatives of the Public Works Department, Mr. A. J. Murdoch, M.P., visited the Waipu and One Tree Point districts with a view to providing suitable works for local unemployed. A number of settlers are already established on Crown blocks at Uretiti, which is two miles north of Waipu. With a view to further improving their holdings it is necessary to put in a main drain through the swamp, and this drain would also open up several hundred acres of excellent peat soil. It is hoped to place the unemployed of the Waipu and Ruakaka districts on the work at an early date. The area of lupins and marram grass planted last year in tho vicinity of Ruakaka is looking well. Application is to bo made to the Lands Department for a further grant in order that this work may bo extended by unemployed labour. MONEY FROM ART UNION SUM OF £62 FOR WHANGAREI [from OUR own correspondent] "WHANGAREI, Saturday The chairman of the Citizen's Relief Committee at Wliangarei, Mr. W. Jones, to-day received a cheque for £O2 us Whangarei's share of tho proceeds of tho "Easter Egg" art union. In a covering letter the Minister ot Internal Affairs expressed the desire that the money should bo applied to the Mayor's relief funds, or similar funds for tho relief of distress. "Tho contribution could not have come at a more opportune time," said Mr. Jones. "With the credit balance in hand, the relief committee will have £IOO available with which to start the winter campaign." t