HELP UNEMPLOYED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 13

HELP UNEMPLOYED

DEVONPORT TO RAISE MONEY COMPLETION OF WHARF APPROACH The Devonport Borough Council last evening resolved to make application to the Local Bodies’ Loans Board for permission to raise £12,000 under the Relief of Unemployment Act, 1926. The labour market at Devonport is as badly disorganised as elsewhere round the city. THE Borough Council is faced with the immediate necessity of completing the Queen’s Parade reclamation in order to have the new road ready when the wharf improvements are completed in April. The work entails protective measures to save the sea wall for its whole length, the concreting for some distance of the new roadway to full width, the covering over of the 22ft. pathway at the entrance to the passenger wharf, and levelling off the reclaimed area. The cost of these improvements is estimated at £12,000. It is necessary to raise money immediately as two months’ work is necessary to complete sufficient of the scheme to allow of using the new wharf, and an endeavour is to be made to have the application made to the meeting of the Loans Board next week. A representative of the borough, who will be in Wellington at the time, will personally support the application. If the money is raised it will assist in finding empolyment for some of the workless in the borough.