AIRPORT AT GISBORNE
CABINET TO SUBSIDISE EXPENDITURE From Our Own Correspondent GISBORNE, Today. As the result of a decision by Cabinet to subsidise the money spent on the Gisborne airport scheme at relief rates, work on the airdrome was resumed today and the 75 men who were paid off last Wednesday have returned to their jobs. The building of the airport was stopped following an announcement that the Government would not pay the subsidy which was expected when the work was begun, and the 75 men who had been engaged were discharged. The unemployment situation in Gisborne was thus made so serious that, after representations from the Gisborne Borough Council and district members of Parliament. Cabinet changed is mind and decided to subsidise the work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 11
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125AIRPORT AT GISBORNE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 11
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