A total of 101 men was employed by the City Council on Saturday on unemployed relief works. Of this number, 81 were working under the works department and 20 under the reserves department. There were also 43 men engaged on casual work and 48 on loan works, making a total of 172 employed by the works department in addition to the ordinary staff. A gang of workmen was engaged all day yesterday in joining new high-ten-sion electricity cables at the corner of Gloucester and Manchester Streets. The work was such that it could not be undertaken when the whole of the business portion of the city was in need of power, and it had to be done during the week-end.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19109, 30 June 1930, Page 6
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