UNEMPLOYMENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5441, 28 June 1929, Page 2

UNEMPLOYMENT.

o WORK FOUND FOR FIFTEEN. MATTERS IN HAND As the result of the unemployment scheme propounded by the Mayor and the borough councillors, endorsed by the community, 15 men are now employed within the borough of Paeroa. Fourteen of these are married men with families, and one single man, who is the sole support of his aged mother. There are still more though that are urgently in need of employment to fend off disaster from themselves and their families. There is no use mincing matters—the position is quite serious, and it almost looks as though it will be beyond available, and so far as is known at present, potential, resources to adequately meet it. Not a day passes at the borough office but a new name of one seeking employment is submitted. The discharge of men from the river works and Public Works Department contracts, etc., is serving to accentuate the matter.

The work in had at present includes Station Road, where the piping and filling in of drains is now well under way, and the laying of auxiliary water service mains in certain sections of the main street. A start has been nvde in cleaning up and clearing at the foot of Primrose Hill, and the hedges of the new reserve across the river are receiving attention.