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(24) Assistance by way of grants and/or financial and labour subsidies towards — (a) Eradication of ragwort and other noxious weeds. (b) Rabbit-extermination. (c) Gold-mining companies. (d) Fruit-growing industry : (i) In respect of increased costs of fruit for sale in New Zealand ; (ii) frost-relief to orchardists ; and (iii) citrus-fruit industry. (e) Coal-mining industry. (/) Flax industry. (g) Fireblight control and eradication. (h) Kauri-gum industry. (i) General land development. (j) Development of pakihi land. (k) Woolpacks-manufacture. (I) Railway improvements and duplications. (m) Irrigation projects. («) River-clearing. (0) Afforestation. (p) Aerodrome-construction. (</) Dangerous railway-crossing elimination. (r) Local-body water and sewerage schemes. (s) Tobacco industry. (t) Farming industry —(i) Scheme 4a : Farmers on own property ; (ii) Scheme 4b : Development-works calculated to increase production of primary products ; (iii) Scheme 4f : Training of youths and young men in farming with view to permanent absorption ; and (iv) small-farm plan : Grants towards capital costs and of sustenance to occupiers. (25) Departmental representatives attached to— (1) Bureau of industry. (ii) Small Farms Board. (iii) Defence. (iv) Major Works Committee. (v) Building Committee. (vi) Building Training Committee. Although the above description is not an exhaustive one it illustrates the ramifications of the work involved in providing for unemployment relief and obtaining employment for disengaged persons. The record does not take count ot all the research work, investigations and action which almost always precede even a minor change of policy ; it does not indicate the vast amount of detail work ever present in the continuous control of the relief and wages payments to a large body of men ; and it does not draw attention to all the problems attendant upon the administration of two hundred offices and upon the work necessary to keep the Departmental machine flexible and adaptable to all those numerous and various demands which are so freely and constantly made on it.

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