RELIEF WORK COSTS
FIGURES FOR LAST THREE YEARS EXPENDITURE TREBLED From Our Resident Reporter WELLINGTON, Today. The report published by the Unemployment Investigation Committee contains interesting figures concerning tho expenditure on unemployment relief works throughout New Zealand during the last three years. The amounts spent by the chief organisations are as follow:
The committee draws attention to the fact that in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin there was a greater expenditure on relief work between April 1, 1927, and March 31, 1928, than in tho following year. At the same time each of these years for tho tour chief towns shows a considerably greater amount expended in relieving unemployment than in 192 G-27. If the large sum expended in Auckland in 1926-27 was removed it would be seen that the other three chief towns used only £21,816 to assist the unemployed. “As was to be expected,” . the committee remarks, “the slackening in the eff ‘arts of the larger local bodies to deal with tho problem of unemployment has brought about increased activity on the part of the Government in establishing relief works.” The .total amount expended by the 18 local bodies that furnished returns for tho three years was £559,542. The expenditure of the Public Works De partment, the State Forest Service and tho Lands and Survey Department totalled £1,285,498 during the same period. Of the grand total of £1,845,040, wages absorbed £1,301,774, or 70.56 per cent, and a sum of £543,256, or 29.44 per cent, was required to meet overhead and other charges.
1926-27 1927-28 1928-^9 £ £ £ Public Works Dpt. 130,000 379,565 680,393 State Forest Svce. Lands and Survey 14,210 27,550 50,250 Department . . 3,500 Auckland City Cl. 61,290 63,099 2S.523 Wellington City Cl. 11,937 76,300 48,923 Christchurch C.< .. 6,704 39.801 Dunedin City Cl.. 14 Other Local 3,175 9,750 8,492 Bodies .. .. j. .. 28,976 77,323 70,019 Totals .. 256,343 673,300 315,406
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 908, 27 February 1930, Page 9
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