BIG PUBLIC WORKS SCHEMES
ITALIAN UNEMPLOYED RELIEF. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rec. 7.30 p.m., London, August 3. The Italian Government is intensifying the policy of carrying out public works in pursuance of relieving unemployment, says the Rome corresepondent of the Times. The first instalment of the plan provides for the building of apartment houses for telephone and telegraph workers in the eight principal cities and for railway employees m 50 towns at a cost of £1,235,000.. Other public works authorised will cost £730,000. The Ministry of Communications proposes a railway programme employing 15,000 men. The Health Ministry is building nine tubercular hospitals with 2500 beds, in addition to 12 with 3000 beds already under construction. Rebuilding in the earthquake area will employ 3000 men.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1930, Page 9
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