RELIEF WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18830, 6 August 1929, Page 14

RELIEF WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED.

SCHEME SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL. The revised schedule for the works for the relief of unemployment was adopted by the City Council last evening. The chairman of the Finance Committee, Councillor D. G. Sullivan, M.P., in refering to the matter, said that the council was providing £25,000, and the Government would provide £BOOO by way of subsidy, but he had hopes that this would be increased to £IO,OOO. THE SCHEDULE. The Works Committee reported that the City Engineer had prepared an amended schedule of works to be carried out under the scheme for relief of unemployment. The total cost is £33.000, the council’s share being £25,000. and the Government subsidy being estimat ed at £BOOO. In order to bring the estimated expenditure down to £33,000 a number of works contained in the original schedule had been deleted, and these are chiefly * oads where sewer connections have yet to be put in. The following is the schedule. The figure in each case is the estimate for

the job:— Malvern Street: Formation and metal Lyttelton Street: Scarify, metal and seal 20ft Rose Street: Scarify, metal and seal 20ft Frankleigh Street: Scarify, metal and seal 20ft Innes Road: Grade and seal . . Innes Road: Corner Rutland Street, round Innes Road: Widen along football ground Innes Road: Form and metal along reserve Scott’s Corner: Rounding cor- £ 1720 1758 lll6 766 480 20 50 40 b b b b Somme Street: Seal Hawkesbury Avenue, on bus route: Regrade, metal and 180 Brown’s Road: Seal ........ 36 Brett’s Road: Seal .......... 240 Rutland Street: Widen 55 Mays Road: Seal Brougham Street: Scarify and 138 c seal Edenbridge Street: Regrade and a remetal 300 a Waltham Road: Concrete .... Carlton Mill Road: River devia4125 a tion Cashel Street: Replacing chan950 d nel and lowering footpath St Asaph Street: Scarify, metal 375 b and seal Selwyn Street: Scarify, metal 1100 a 700 b Waltham Road: Seal 245 b Church Square: Scarify and seal Jerrold Street: Scarify and seal 80 b 20ft 670 b Rugby Street: Seal Bealey Avenue* Regrade and 180 c seal Cambridge Terrace: Regrade 650 a and seal Stoneyhurst Street: Regrade 1821 and seal 100 Ensor’s Road: Seal Edgeware Road: Regrade as 360 b necessary and seal 660 Cranford Street: Seal 350 Austin Street: Widening Fifield Terrace. Widen, raise 620 road and metal 240 South Crescent Road: Widening Wilson’s Road. Widening, kerb 450 and channel Little York Street: Widening 250 a and form footpath Reeves Road West side, foot80 path, kerb and channel .. Reeves Road: East side, foot190 a path Marshall Street* South side, 50 a widen Marshall Street: North side, widen throughout, kerb and 10 channel Marshall Street: Form footpath 150 a and cut back Sheldon Street: Widen south 48 side Cumnor Terrace: Channel, three 40 a chains Hargood Street* Widening ten 36 * chains Abberley Road . 50 Banks Avenue; Part only .... 236 b Trafalgar Street Boulevard Work— 1. Completion of Mrs Payton’s 80 c property 2 Completion of Mrs Armstrong’s property up to 1200 Kerrs Road 3. Formation, etc., from Wes2500 tenra Street eastwards .. 4. Moving back two houses 1100 on above length 5. Formation, etc., eastwards 360 towards Retreat Road .. 6. Moving back three houses 1200 on above 7. Completion west of present 540 formation in south bank 1460 Opawa Road* North side Woodham Road: North side Patten Street: West side Gloucester Street: Woodham 130 Road-River Road, west side 150 quired Morris Street, Leighton Street: 130 b As required 280 Westenra Street: Both sides .. Kerrs Road West side North Avon Road: Completion North Parade: North Avon 60 sides North Parade: Averill Street95 Shirley Road, west side . . 150 a Stapletons Road: East side .... 260 Shirley Road: South side .... 205 Medway Street: Both sides .... Antigua Street. Tuam Street200 Oxford Terrace, north side 30 Belfast Street: North side .... 50 Domett Street* North side .... 55 b Leinster Road: South side .... 45 Rossall Street 40 Canal Reserve: Seal 120 Balustrade wall: Band stand . „ Falsgrave Street: Concrete full width railway - Mowbray Street: concrete 20ft Mow2311 b bray-Shakespeare Tuam Street: Scarify, metal and 2745 seal 1725 Neville Street: Remetal and seal 560 Howard Street*. Scarify, metal and seal 20ft Simeon Street: Scarify, metal 343 and seal 20ft . 865 Grants Road* Metal 630 Proctor Street: Metal 324 Mary Street: Metal Carnarvon Street: Metal and 312 285 seal 20ft Ford Road: Scarify, metal and 685 <68 Eastern Terrace: Grade and seal M’Kenzie Avenue: Scarify, 450 metal and seal 20ft Richardson Street: Scarify, 8S0 metal and seal 20ft Richardson Terrace: Metal and 810 seal Gloucester Street: Lin wood Avenue-Woodham Road. 790 scarify and seal 20ft .... Tancred Street: Lin wood Avenue-Woodham Road, S80 scarify and seal 20ft .... Aldwins Road: Lin wood Avenue from Bass Street, scarify. 450 metal and seal Springfield Road: Bealey Avenue-Derby Street, wid610 ening and remove trees . . Boulevard: Formation, etc., 240 treat Road 1200 '• From the above it can be seen that the toO.OOO has been reduced by This would leave the works at £32,072. leaving £928 for work,” added the report. reserves completed. d subject to Drainage Board s authority )