SCARCITY OF L ABOUR .
FOUR HUNDRED MEN WANTED. WELLINGTON, October 26. Scarcity of labour is likely to be the worst difficulty of the Roads Department in expending the special grants of £250,000 for back-blocks roads this year. There are 2734 men at work now, 1000 more than this time last year, and the department could place another 400 in various parts of the country.
The main purpose to which the backblocks allocation will be applied will be widening bridle tracks into dray roads, and it is expected that between 400 and 500 miles can be dealt with during the year.
A new method of allocating the expense of superintendence and administration enables the whole of a road grant to be utilised for the actual work of road-making.
As showing the evident appreciation wirh whioh the InvereargiU Corporation's little handbook is held, the town clerk has received a cablegram from a Kalgoorlio resident asking him to kindly forward a copy of the said booklet. i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2850, 28 October 1908, Page 70
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