RELIEF EXPENDITURE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 9

RELIEF EXPENDITURE.

Report Submitted to Meeting of Council. The expenditure of relief funds administered by the City Council was the subject of a report to the meeting held last evening. The report stated that the council’s expenditure since April 1, last was £11.950 4s and the Unemployment Board’s proportion of wages under the No. 5 scheme was £48,697 8s Sd. An amount of £5423 had been expended by the Works Department, £894 on the causeway work, £l4 on the Summit Road, £543 14s on street widening and £IS7 6s on the Estuary Road. The Reserves Committee reported that ninety-three unemployed were engaged at Bottle Lake, at a cost of £162, sixty-six at Burwood Park, the cost being £39; seventeen on the river banks 'at Carlton Mill Terrace at a cost of £l7; forty-nine at the Cemetery Reserve, costing £l7; twenty-three at Victoria Park, costing £3; eleven at Linwood, Bromley and Sydenham cemeteries, on subsidy only, eight at the Linwood nursery under the same conditions, and twenty-two in the growing of vegetables for the relief depots at a cost of £1 Bs. The average number of men employed on a monthly average was 300, at a cost of £515 14s The report was adopted.