UNREMUNERATIVE WORK
Expenditure of Public Money Deplored "ORGY OF SPENDING" 'fhe very largp amount of public monoy being expcnded adjacent to the towns on unremunerative works for the purpose of providing employnient for men on sustenance w|iile iinportant work in the eountry was not being assisted, was tlie subject of some strong criticism by members of the Hawke's Bay County Council to-day. Beeause other local bodies were obtaining money from the Government to provide work, . members considered that they should not be a party to what they described as being "an orgy of spendina." Following a diseussion it was dccided that a protest be forwarded to the Departuient,* to be drafted by the chairman, ALr E. B. Logan, and the clerk Mr W. J. O'Connell. In it due regard is to be given for the good work earried out, but it is to be pointed out tliat importanfc and remunerative works some distance from the towns were being igaiored.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 8
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