WORK RESUMED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 659, 12 January 1933, Page 11

WORK RESUMED.

Extensive Relief Schemes in City.

Beginning the New Year, the Christchurch City Council is carrying on with unemployment relief works on a scale just as extensive as during last t year. All jobs, including the formation of the causeway road, and of road along the estuary foreshore, have been resumed, and about 800 men are employed. A small gang of men is working on the road between Purau and Camp Bay. The work will be finished in about a week’s time, after which the men will probably be drafted to the Lewis Pass camp. The Selwyn Plantations Board has completed the afforestation work on which unemployed men were engaged. The Waimakariri River Trust still has a considerable number of pien employed on river protection work, and the camp at M’Lean’s Island is open for those men who can arrange to find their own • food and transport. Camps for Single Men. Over two hundred unemployed men are in the main camps established by the Public Works Department and the State Forest Service. There are fortytwo men employed at the Hill Top camp. Another batch of men has gone to the Lewis Pass camp, bringing the total to sixty-two. The capacity of that camp is seventy, and if many more men are available another will be established. The camp at Motunau has been moved to Waipara Beach, and twentyfour men are employed in widening the road which runs from Waipara to the beach. Work at least until the end of March will be provided for the thirty-four men at the State Forest Service camp at Eyrewell and the thirty-seven men at Balmoral. Apart from the camps established for single men in the country, the main relief work being carried out is the formation of the causeway road across M’Cormack’s Bay, on the route from Christchurch to Sumner. Another work which the City Council has in hand is the formation of a road connecting the Canal Reserve with the Ferry bridge. The road will skirt the borders of the Estuary. The Department of Agriculture has a fair number of men engaged in tracing fireblight; the Canterbury College Board of Governors has men engaged in clearing work and in attending to schools and colleges, and the Defence Department is carrying out clearing work at Burnham. Road widening is being done by the Selwyn County Council. Caring for the Women. The Women’s Unemployment Committee is working steadilj' for the alleviation of distress among unemployed women and girls. There are now two cookery centres, one for the training of girls in that art and the other for the needs of unemployed women, who may receive a meal daily at the rooms in Colombo Street The centres supply hot meals for necessitous cases, the meals being delivered to homes. The sewing centre trains the girls in needlework and fits them for positions when such arise.