NEWMARKET CONSIDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 16

NEWMARKET CONSIDERS

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF TWO WORKS RECOMMENDED With a view to the relief of unemployment a committee of the Newmarket Borough Council has gone into possible works, and at the council meeting last evening reported that the engineer estimated that the cost of the proposed improvements to “No Man’s Land” would be £2,200. The proposed work includes excavation and formation of a footway in Carlton Road, excavation and formation of footway, kerbing and channelling and extension of cariage-way in George Street. The committee recommended that the City Council be approached with the object of obtaining a rroportion of the cost of this work, and that the necessary permission be obtained from the Minister and the Local Bodies’ Loans Board for the raising of a loan not exceeding £3,000 for the purposes of improvement of the arfa known as “No Man’s Land” in Carlton Gore Road and George Street, and extending from Park Road to Tctoki Street, and the formation of Mortimer Pass in accordance with plans submitted by the City Council. Fhe committee also recommended ♦k * ** lls amount be borrowed under Provisions of Relief of Unemployment Act and that application be made Jl, . u l e . Government subsidy on the cost of labour.