UNEMPLOYMENT LOANS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT LOANS

ACTIVITY IN DEVONPORT The Devonport Borough Council is to ask the Government for a £ for £ subsidy on a bequest of £l,lOO under the AVatson Estate grant for work on King Edward Parade. and if the money is available to immediately proceed with the facing of the wall past the Rowing Club shed, and the kerbing and channelling of the promenade adjacent. In addition a similar subsidy is to be asked on £l5O collected by public subscriptions for work at O’Neill’s Point cemetery. The Mayor’s casting vote decided that the work should be done on the main drive. A project to raise a loan under the provisions of the Unemployment Loans Act of £ 5,630 to stone face the sea wall on Queen’s Parade was dropped when it was discovered that the labour involved would cost only £I,OOO. the balance going in materials. The possibility of getting any immediate relief for workers under the scheme was considered remote, and in view of the fact that a bigger loan scheme for footpaths is to be put before the ratepayers the idea of stone facing the wall was dropped. The Stanley Bay Improvement Association’s donation of £940 will also be brought under notice for a subsidy and the Vauxliall Tennis Club has some money in hand that will rank for help also.