UNEMPLOYED WORKS.
COUNTY COUNCIL BETURNS. TWO SCHEMES OPERATING. The number of unemployed relief workers engaged by the Masterton County Council during February represented a decrease as compared with the figures for January. The counci/. now has only two schemes in operation against four previously. The expenditure on wages to relief workers during February was £633 19s lOd, making the total to-date this flnancdal year £14,959 6e. The expenditure last month was as follows: Full time employees, £379 15s lOd; camps, £253 4s 6d. During February the number of relief workers engaged by the county totalled 145 as compared with 156 during January. The men were engaged as follows, the figures for January being given in parentheses: Full time at standard rates, 59 (64); camps, 81 (71); farm work, 0 (14); road work, 0 (06).
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Wairarapa Age, 6 March 1935, Page 4
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134UNEMPLOYED WORKS. Wairarapa Age, 6 March 1935, Page 4
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