FLOOD DAMAGE
WAIROA RESTORATION SHORTAGE OF LABOUR (Special to tho Herald.) WAIROA. this day. "Now that we are getting more settled weather Hood damage on county roads is being cleaned up, particularly where gangs can be kept up to their full complement," stated the engineer, Mr. R. W. Hawthorne, in his report, to yesterday'.-; meeting of the Wairoa County Council. The engineer added that on roads where considerable Hood damage occurred good work was being done with the labour available, but ii was practically impossible to obtain eitlr.v registered or unregistered men. He had made several requests through the Labour Bureau, but no men were available from either Gisborne or Napier and to get the balance of flood damage work cleaned up bv March 31 next would be impossible unless the council purchased a good bulldozer.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19759, 13 October 1938, Page 21
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136FLOOD DAMAGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19759, 13 October 1938, Page 21
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