MOUNT EDEN BOROUGH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22167, 22 July 1935, Page 11

MOUNT EDEN BOROUGH

SUBSIDISED RELIEF WORKS CONSTRUCTION OF SEWERS "By completing its extensive sewer construction programme with subsidised relief workers, my council expects to make a saving of approximately £50,000," said the Mayor of Mount Eden, Mr. T. McNab, on Saturday. While some local bodies were abolishing relief work under the Jfo. 5 scheme the Mount Eden Council, with the Unemployment Board's subsidy, was able to employ 120 men in full-time employment at a net wage of £3 10s a week, continued Mr. McNab. The council had its own carpentry shop, smithy and plant for making concrete pipes for the drainage scheme. Practically all the 120 men were secured from the ranks of the unemployed. Mr. McNab said that in the past L'} months 18,000 ft. of sewer had been laid through rocky country. The work entailed one tunnel 200 ft. long. In addition, roads had been formed and a football ground and cricket pitch down at Nicholson Park, while at present a sports ground was being constructed at the foot of the mountain. An added saving to the council was its policy of making the concrete pipes itself.