MANGONUI UNEMPLOYED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22433, 1 June 1936, Page 11

MANGONUI UNEMPLOYED

PROVISION OF ROAD WORKS

REQUEST TO DEPARTMENT

[BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] KAITAIA, Saturday

A conference of delegates from the Mangonui County Council, Kaitaia Town Board, Kaitaia Employment Bureau, together with representatives of the Public Works Department and the unemployment certifying officer for the district, was held at Kaitaia yesterday, when the question of absorbing the 640 registered unemployed in the county was discussed.

It was recognised that the Mangonui County Council did not have the tools and plant: efficiently to employ the men. However, the Public Works Department had the plant available, and it was decided that the county council should be asked to approach the Public Works Department immediately, requesting that the department should put in hand works of a major nature on some of the important roads in the county. A Government grant, is also to be sought for the cost of supervision of these works. On one main road in the county, from Pamapurfa to Fairburn, there is £2400 available for county funds, and a resolution was carried urging the county council immediately to make this fund available to the Public Works Department for the supervision and purchase of materials and equipment for work for unemployed inbour on this road

DIFFICULTIES AT HIXURANOI MANY MEN ON SUSTENANCE [fhom our own correspondent] WHANGAREI, Saturday Chiefly on account of the Hikurangi Town Board being unable to provide economic work for more than 10 unemployed workers, a large proportion of the able-bodied men of Hikurangi will be on sustenance as from the beginning of next week. The exhaustion of the surface coal around the old workings of the Hikurangi Coal Coinpany's mime has thrown a further number of men out ol work. As many of the ratepayers have been on relief for a considerable period the Hikurangi Town Board has not the finance available to subsidise the employment of more than 10 men. Although the new administration of the Act provides that where useful work can be supplied by the local body additional men to those subsidised may be retained on the recently-increased allocation, the Hikurangi Town Board cannot provide economic work for more than the 10 already engaged. This "ill result in the remainder of the unemployed, about 70, going on to sustenance.