UNEMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 10

UNEMPLOYMENT

LIST OF RELIEF WORKS EXPENDITURE OF £2.000 GRANT Tho schedule of works drawn up by tho City Council for tho expenditure of tho £2,000 grant made by the Government for tho relief of unemployment is as follows: — Widening of Pino Hill road at Fea street. Total estimated cost of £530; comprising £352 for labour and £l7B for material. Widening of Maori road at a total estimated cost of £450, comprising £4lO for labour and £4O for material. Widening of Queen’s drive from York place to Serpentine avenue at a total estimated cost of £2OO, comprising £l4O for labour and £6O Immaterial. Young street, grading the bank from Russell street to York place at a total estimated cost of £250, comprising £lB2 for labour and £6B immaterial. Improving tho bend in Walton street at Shetland street at an estimated total cost of £llO, of which £75 is for labour and £35 for material. Widening Chamberlain street at the entrance to Queenls drive at a total estimated cost of £250, comprising £IBO for labour and £7O for material. Widening Cliff’s road at tho bend above tho Battery at a total estimated cost of £325, comprising £l9O for labonr and £135 for material. Levelling and turfing portion of th» Oval reserve at a total estimated cost ■of £SOO for'labour only. Tho men to bo employed on tho relief work, are to bo engaged through tho local Labour Bureau, preference being given to married men with dependents. Applicants must produce a certificate signed by a ratepayer to the effect that they have resided in tho city for tho past six months. Tho approval of the local public works engineer has to be given to all tho works before a start can bo made. Fifteen men who were engaged on Monday were given a start this morning, mostly on tho work of widening the top of Maori road from Adam’s street south.