NEARING COMPLETION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11295, 22 August 1922, Page 5

NEARING COMPLETION

CITY RELIEF WORKS SEVERAL ALLOCATIONS ALMOST 1 EXHAUSTED. COUNCIL AND THE LOAN. Several of the unemployment relief works at present in progress will he discontinued shortly through the comE lotion of the contracts and the exaustion of the moneys allocated for expenditure. The preparation of the children’s playground on the Pirie street reserve, which has been giving employment to a number of men for several weeks past, will have to be suspended next week, as the sum of £SOO 6et aside, for the purpose has been almost entirely expended. The play area will be about 200 yards in length’ and 50 yards in width, and the money is being expended merely in levelling off the site and dressing the surface. No provision has been made for the erection of equipment sueli as swings, see-saws, etc., though it is probable that these additions will be made subsequently. "When completed, the reserve will be an attractive recreation area, patronised by large numbers of children in the vicinity. , In about a months time the Prince of Wales Park and Nairn street reserve, the improvement of which ifl absorbing nearly 100 men, will be ready for sowing in grass, and work will have to be found elsewhere for the workmen engaged. It is expected that both reserves will be available for sports purposes next season. The sowing of the grass will be commenced towards the end of next month. Extensive improvements are mapped out at the Anderson Park, where a number of unemployed seamen are engaged in cutting tawiay tho old cemetery bluff and dumping the soil into the deep gully near by. An anonymous donation of £SOO has been made __ for the purpose, which is being subsidised £ for £ by the City Council, but the funds will not provide relief very long. When completed, the contract will almost double the present area of the It is not likely that any new relief works will be opened until the City Council has procured the £IO,OOO which it desires to ranee by loan under the new legislative authority.