THE UNEMPLOYED.
The example made of several men employed on tho relief works for not' doing a fair .day's work has not,bad the desired effect! Warnings have been freely distributed by the gangers, but it has been found ne-\ oessary to dismiss five more men from.tho. Victoria . College works and one from the Wadestown Road. It is stated that the re-.' iects were quite able to do a fair day's work,. but they preforred loafing and. "pointing." . The wages paid out to the men employed on thp Mount Victoria Road last week amounted to £52 15s. 6d. The tree-planters' got in a good week, their total earnings being £23 (is. 6d., whilst the 'labourers engaged on t'he Victoria College grounds' shared £123 4b. 7d. for the week's'work
The Government'lias agreed to make pro-'; gress.payments on tho basis of £2 for £1 for. any money subscribed for tho new wing of .Victoria College. Tho Relief Committee, has' voted £100 to the new wing on condition • that the College Governors spend tho £100 they, liave already oollefcted' and start the work of laying the foundations for the new wing about the middle of . next month. The position as it affects the unemployed ii that when the' men employed on tho. Mount Victoria Road have done their present work, which will last until about tho second week in' September, they could be transferred to. the new wing of the college and kept going until the beginning of October. . ■ . . AVork is to be commenced/shortly ■->]!•. +h<v » recreation room for the tramway eriiployeea. The.'building,-which is to be eiccteu _ui' uii) Newtown carsheds, has been subsidised to, tho extent of £200. by the City Council, the tramway men finding another £100.. Tho work will , absorb ' somo, of tho unemployed carpenters. iW question of tho continuation' of tho Mount Victoria Road to connect it up with a "papor" road belonging to a Hataitai syndicate is still under Surveys have been made, in view of the suggestion, and it has been found that favourable grades can bo secured. . i
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 6
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340THE UNEMPLOYED. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 6
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