UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1930, Page 3

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

NEW PLYMOUTH EXPENDITURE STATE OF THE REGISTER. \ . — . ADDITIONAL SUBSIDY GAINED. \ ✓ ■’• _ ~ ■ It was revealed at a meeting of the New Plymouth Unemployment and Relief Committee yesterday that the total' expenditure) on various works in New Plymouth to date has been £3999 19s Id, being niade up as follow: Turehu ' Street £241 13s 4d, Courtenay Street £2ll 5s fid, Doone Street £265 0s lid, Frankley Road £949 Is, Mangorei Road £390 0s '6d, Woolcombe Terrace £203 19s sd, Roy Terrace £162 Ils 10d,’ Mill Road £146 Ils Id, Lorna St. £514 4s 4<l. ‘ Octavius Place £.40, Broadmoore £67 6s lid, Walsh Road £5- 7s 2d, Rec rd Street £179 lls.lOd, Clawton £44 19s ' 6d, Seav.ew Road £1.4.1 Is. • Other expenditure, including stationery and cross / entries, totalled £2SS 9s 3d. There were present at the - meeting Mr. P. E. Stainton (chairman), the Mayor (Mr. H. V. S. Griffiths), Adjutant McKenzie, Messrs. J. McLeod, F. J. Hili, D. Flood, G. R. A. Whiting, W. Fleming, C. P. Smith, J. Palmer and the honorary secretaries, Messrs. W. G. Reid and O. N. Johnson. There were 253 men on the committee’s unemployed register, these having 655 dependants. There were 72 men in A class, their dependants totalling 34T, 55 in B with 160 defendants, 99 in C with 148 defendants and 27 single men. ’ Of this number, except for the single meu, only two A class, four B class and ten C class had been unplaced. There had been 61 on borough relief work's and 15 in reserve for private casual work which was being placed at the committee’s use. WORK SATISFACTORY. i Mr. Stainton said he was pleased to report that the work done by the relief' workers was very satisfactory and compared favourably with that of regular borough employees. This bore out the committee’s contention that the men were worth helping. They had given of their best. The total amount collected by private subscriptions was £9ll 5s 2d. The chairman informed the meeting that they were now receiving £2 for £1 subsidy on private donations. This would mean an additional sum which had previously only been anticipated. ‘ It was decided to send a letter of thanks to the Hon'. S. G. Smith for x tbe assistance he had given. * A letter was received from Mr. Smith conveying the information regarding the subsidy. It stated that in accordance •with the decision to grant £2 for £1 . on public subscriptions the New Plymouth Borough Council was entitled to a subsidy of £1413 in respect to its last schedule of relief works, instead of £llBO . ( £7lO, £1 for £1 on account to be provided from public subscriptions and £470, £2 for £1 on the balance of the works). FORESHORE BEAUTIFYING. > The trustees of the old New Plymouth. Horticultural Society, ' Messrs. W. C. Weston and V. C. Davies, forwarded the’ following resolution passed at a meeting on November 10, 1927: “That the operation of the New Plymouth Horticultural . Society be suspended, that the balance of monies deposited in the New Plymouth Savings Bank be vested in the names of the trustees for two yeara from. December I, 1927, such monies, to be available in the event of the society being revived during that period. In the ; event of the money not being required for that purpose the trustees are instructed to utilise the money for horticulturally beautifying New Plymouth, unemployed returned soldiers to be given employment preference.” The trustees considered that the unemployed and relief committee could secure a Government subsidy on the £35 concerned and stated that they would hand over the amount. They would be pleased to see a schedule of the proposed work. The money would, of course, be used for beautifying and the trustees suggested several areas along the New Plymouth foreshore which had no controlling body.

It was proposed, the chairman stated, to clean up a borough reserve at Mount Byron, at-the foot of Eliot Street, where the pohutukawa trees were being “swamped” with other growth. There were numbers of 'other places where similar cleaning and planting xyork could be carried out with the money offered for subsidy by the trustees. / The Ngamotu Seaside Improvement Committee wrote requesting that the sum of £9l to be spent on Ngamotu beach iipproveiuents be subject to a £1 for £1 subsidy as most of it would be. used in finding work for unemployed men. It was felt that they were- entitled. to some consideration as the work was of an important nature. Tho secretaries reported that a deputation had waited upon them on September 9 and it had been decided that the £1 for £1 subsidy on tree planting at Ngainotu beach- be applied for. This was confirmed. t >