QUARTER MILLION LOAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 109, 29 July 1927, Page 13

QUARTER MILLION LOAN

STREET IMPROVEMENTS UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF WELLINGTON PROPOSALS Press Association. THE city council has decided to -*■ raise a loan of £290,800, nearly all of which will be used for paving streets and footpaths. It is also considering a loan of £150,000 for tramway plant and extensions. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Mayor’s unemployment fund now exceeds £7,000. Special loans aggregating £40,000, are also being raised. These amounts, plus the Government subsidy, bring the total for unemployment relief to nearly £70,000. The money is being devoted to street and road works, improvement in the sandhill area, and tree-planting. WAGES REDUCED COMPLAINT FROM DUNEDIN Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. Complaints have been received by the secretary of the Trades Hall that, the wages of workers employed on public works at Portobello have been reduced without notice from 14s to 12s in the case of married men, and from 12s to 9s for single men. The department states that the agreement with the Workers’ Union for 14s applies only to men employed on standard works at normal times, and not to relief works. The Portobello road work was the only relief work on which the men luLd received 14s and 12s, and it was only now that these workers had been called on to come down to the same standard as the other relief workers.