RELIEF IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 9

RELIEF IN AMERICA

PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMMES HUGE AMOUNT APPROPRIATED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, October 29. “ A higher and better standard of living for tire people of the United States will be one of the achievements of the Federal expenditures on the public works relief programmes, for which 3,300,000,000 dollars have been appropriated and 255,000,000 dollars for the non-Federal projects already allotted,” Mr Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, stated to-night. He pointed out that, besides millions spent on waterworks, bridges, roads, hospitals, power plants, flood control, etc., hundreds of allowances are being made —some as small as a few hundred dollars —for permanent improvements, even in the crossroads and villages. It is announced that the Government will make purchases of gold abroad as a second step in President Roosevelt’s recently indicated financial policy. POSITION IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, October 29. It is announced that a fifth of all the children in New York State are in families receiving public relief. A ninth of the population, approximately 1,500,000 persons, are on certified relief rolls. Juvenile relief statistics became necessary when the Administration was required to compute its requirements of cod liver oil for the coming winter.