RELIEF WORK SCHEMES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 6

RELIEF WORK SCHEMES

PROBLEM OF TRANSPORT WORK 1\ BAUKBLOUKThat regulation** would have t be made tv facilitate relief work' b-irg done on th- back country nr.ds :.n | Opinion endorsed l»y the Waitotara; County Council yesterday. it being held that the Public Works” Depart . Hunt's small contra-* .-ystein »vt*- suit- 1 ed to the project and should replace t- present method of conveying work- ' era away from a centre merely f ] three or four days” work a week * letter from the Prime Minister' l pa cked the discussion. Hu wr«>t • ' re P rescnTat ’ ons h?. been made to I’ with WCjfvrs to relief work, he would ask H <00a» bodies, however, no! tv object to j - the evs of transport. a> cheap I was being done. Local Lxiies had I' i >milar responsibility with regard top as that «>f the Govern- , i J*pt. and theii to operation was sought p ••k regard To relief measures. F. H. Vilen move*!:— « “That in order that urg. ?.tly ! back block roads may l>« eon-p b ructed (which is the policy of the i • resent Governmen and present » jtes improved, it is high times the ; present system of part time work .» wa> adjusted so as to permit me., to i worl in the one run. the whole 11 number o F days they are enti ied to |j in each month, and that the opin »

ion of thi:- Council the I’ublie Works Department’s unemployment small contract system is eminently suited for this pu- >ose. and should be more extensively made use of.” Ihe mover pointed out that married man with four children was en-tit’-d t.» work on three days a week. It woui< be better to let him work a ‘fortnight on end and establish camps. | t h<- regulations as they were now only • permitted work neing done near the p-ntr<- and, in time, the men would ;hav ( to b« sent back. It would pay th • Council handsomely to find camps. The county engineer (Mr T. Dix> did not favour the camp scheme. He pointed out that so long as the cost of itransuort was not amounting to a j quarter ot the total cost, and h was ’.Mire it would not be a sixteenth, the | county was quite all right. ; ‘‘l don’t think we should quibble i a Lout th- transport at all,” said Cr. iE. Parsuns. He seconded the motion. There was a new l.’nemployment Board |in existence, he added, and wo ’ would | have to be found away from the main , roads sooner or later. He thought difjticulries in connection with sending men into the back ointry coulc be got ! Tin- chairman (Cr. W. Morrison) said [that he was in sympathy with the motion. but he coaid forsce diffie- Hies. Cr Persons: The back-blocks never get a fair deal. Hero is a chance to spend publie money where it is most iiucdeii. We can got along the main iroad. but th<»ro are some of these back roads nobody can get along. ' The motion was carried.