EXTRA RELIEF WORK

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1931, Page 5

EXTRA RELIEF WORK

SUBSIDY TOO SMALL. SPECIAL NEW YEAR WORK. The special subsidy allocated to the Masterton Unemployment Committee to allow of a little extra employment being given during the two weeks prior to Christmas was rather small for the amount of work offered by citizens, although the response to the appeal for extra work was not particularly good. In any case the committee Would have been unable to subsidise a large amount of work. A number of citizens created jobs for several men who were thus able to earn a little extra to tide them over Christmas.

The Masterton County Council had approximately 150 men on relief work during the two weeks prior to Christmas. The Council arranged a measure of extra work which ensured the men full time, according to whether they were two, three or four-day men, during that period.

the BOROUGH’S PART.

A NEW YEAR JOB.

The Masterton Borough Council is to spend £IOO in the first days of the New Year in providing extra relief work for 80 men. The money is to be expended to advantage in the renewal of the water main which runs along that section of Cornwall Street between Chapel and Pownall Streets. The work will be commenced on January 4 of the New Year, and the 80 men, who have been selected by a. committee of the unemployed as being the most necessitous cases, will be given two days’ extra relief work each. They are all married men with two or more dependents. The extra work will be portioned out over a period of a week. Should the work on the new main extend over a week it will be completed by ordinary relief labour. Speaking to a “Daily Times’’ representative to-day the Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, pointed out that there would be a definite return for the extra money to be spent in relief work and it would be of real benefit to the town.