RELIEVING WORKLESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 6

RELIEVING WORKLESS

DEVONPORT TO CONSIDER SCHEME BAND AND THE COUNCIL The Devonport Borough Council last evening had before it a scheme, prepared by the engineer, in which certain streets off the main thoroughfares would be reconditioned and Government subsidies for the relief of unemployed would be used. The engineer’s report was that on the streets scheduled the reconstruction would involve £25,000. The Government subsidy would be £5,240, if the council employed its own cartage teams, and £ 6,500 if it employed outside teams. The council decided to call together representatives of the Ratepayers’ Associations and leading men to consider the scheme and determine whether it was advisable to proceed with any scheme to relieve unemployment. It was reported that the cable authorities, while willing to permit the use of the piles of the Iris wharf as supports for a dinghy skidway, would not alldw the use of space under the wharf for dinghy shelters, as it was to be used for cable storage. Water meters are to be installed in | every case where houses are supplied 1 with water. The trustees of the Devonport j United Band waited on the council, to I urge that the borough should take over ! the instruments and the assets of the ! United Band. Mr. H. T. Hoverd, as one of the trustees, said that, unless it was possible for the borough to take over the instruments and the band shed, the band would be wound up at the annual meeting, to be held next month. The band had always paid its way, and now had £2OO in the bank, and owed only that sum on its set of instruments, one of the finest in New Zealand. The shed had cost £250, but as it was on land held at will from the Domain Board, it was not an asset if it had to be moved. The trustees suggested that if the council kept the band in Devonport. as it should, the available money could be used to supply new uniforms for the bandsmen, and the band would help raise funds . to pay off the liability that the council I would assume. j The Mayor, Mr. E. Aldridge, said that the scheme should be fully considered, and a committee was set up I to meet the hand officials.