EROSION ON BENVENUE CLIFFS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19570, 17 August 1933, Page 7

EROSION ON BENVENUE CLIFFS.

To tlie Editor of " The Tlmaru Herald " Sir, —If your correspondent will take the trouble to think, he will see that while the council's sewage drain exists between the sea and the railway embankment, the drain will be the first to suffer. I do more than believe. I know that if the Harbour Board did not believe the dredge to be fully capable of handling the silt by working four hours out of the twenty-four, the dredge would not now be laid up. “Futurist's” query: “If work has to be found for the unemployed, why not give them something to do?” If you, or I, give an unemployed man a day s work, he will demand ten shillings regardless of whether he has earned ten shillings or tenpence. If a contractor undertakes a job, the cost is known beforehand: men who previously were unemployed become employed at full wages; the contractor who was starving finds employment for himself and plant, and the work is completed in half the time and at half the cost. The money thus saved is available for other jobs. To say “the money would be better spent on wages than on material” is nonsense. Wages and material are inseparable. "Futurist,” apparently, would object to working for a contractor who pays his men for handling material instead of looking at it. If your correspondent will give a little more thought to serving, and a little less to being served, he may yet “feel the satisfaction of having completed something worth while.” —I am, etc., C. H. MASON. Timaru, August 16.