RELIEF WORK SUBSIDY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 8

RELIEF WORK SUBSIDY

REFUSED TO TAUMARUNUI MONEY FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE From Our Own Correspondent TAUMARUNUI, Thursday. The Taumarunui Borough Council recently applied to the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, for a subsidy on a sum of £75 which it has unexpended from a certain loan, and which it is now proposed to expend as relief employment money. The Minister has advised that as the sum is apparently to be used on works for which the loan was specifically raised, no subsidy can be granted, even though the expenditure would be for the relief of unemployment. Mr. Ransom further advises that if the unemployment position is considered so acute in the borough as to necessitate the i*aising of a loan, or the raising of funds by public subscription or other allowable means, the granting of a subsidy would receive favourable consideration, subject to the works being given the approval of the district engineer. Though there is a certain amount of unemployment in the borough, the position is by no means acute, and it is not likely that the raising of funds will be attempted. The expenditure of the above sum, if a subsidy could have been secured, would have relieved the position very considerably.