WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED
FLAX-PLANTING ON PLAINS.
DRAINAGE DEPARTMENT'S ACTION
Arrangements are being made by the Lands Drainage Department for the employment of about forty men on relief work on the Hauraki Plains. They will be engaged in collecting flax plants from the swamp and transplanting them in that area of Crown land south of the Ngarua canal familiarly known as McLoughlin’s run. The first batch's due to arrive about July 9. Workmen’s huts are being collected from various, parts of the Plains and being re-erected on the eastern bank of the Piako River, a little below the Kaihere landing- A cookhouse is also being erected. Mr C. Bertelsen, Lands Department overseer, of Ngatea, will be in charge.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2
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117WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5294, 2 July 1928, Page 2
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