RIVER WORKS
MANAWATU PROPOSAL WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED. [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. A request that the Oroua-Manawatu Drainage Board be allowed to carry cm river protection works under No. 5 Scheme was placed before the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes by representatives of the local bodies of the district. It was stated that the available works to which unemployed could be applied were running out and this proposal would furnish work for a large number of men. It would also bring into cultivation some of the best land in the Dominion.
Air Forbes suggested that the local bodies concerned should confer wi‘h the Unemployment Board and Minister of Public Works in order to devise some way by which the scheme could bo carried out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 197, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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125RIVER WORKS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 197, 21 August 1931, Page 7
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