WET WEATHER STOPS RELIEF WORKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18642, 20 December 1928, Page 10

WET WEATHER STOPS RELIEF WORKS.

UNEMPLOYED ARE DOGGED BY BAD LUCK. The unemployed who were engaged for special relief work provided by the City Council to tide them over the Christmas period have been having a particularly bad run as regards interruptions to their work. Last week they lost two full days owing to wet weather, and this week they have lost Monday, which, though fine, was a municipal holiday, and today, owing to rain. Approximately 200 of the men made a start on Monday of last week with a promise of a fortnight’s work before Christmas, and a further batch of about a hundred started later in the week with a promise of nine days’ work. As things have turned out it will not be possible for the men to get in their full periods of work before Christmas, with the result that their wages this week will be below their expectations. The Mayor, the Rev J. K. Archer, remarked to-day that it was a great pity that the weather had interfered with the relief works to such an extent but the men would be employed for the number of days promised. He had hoped that they would have been able to get in the full amount of work before Christmas so as to earn all the money available for them, but the weather had upset these arrangements.