Work to Start oh Museum Approaches
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY APPROVED WORK in connection with laying out the approaches to the War Memorial Museum will commence within the next few days. This will provide work for a number of unemployed in Auckland. The sum of £3,800 was raised, and. with the Government subsidy recently authorised, the work can now proceed. Arrangements have been made by the War Memorial Committee to find the balance between the subsidy and the estimate of £7.600. The work will be urder the control of Air. W. E. Bush, city engineer, who states that a start wi.ll be made by Monday at the latest. The work is regarded as purely an unemployment relief undertaking:, and the City Council have, therefore, decided that the rate of wages shall be 12s a day for married men and 9s a day for single men. It was made clear by the Mayor, Mr. G. Baildon, that the work was devised solely with the object of providing an opportunity to tide over the present unfavourable situation. Those men employed would not expect to be engaged longer than the time necessary for them to obtain work at the full ruling rates.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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199Work to Start oh Museum Approaches Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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