On the first of August last there were 1,812 men employed on Government Relief and Co-operative Works in the Colony, but of this number only 85 were employed north of Ohinemuri. There are as pressing works in the North as in the South and yet even in the matter of Co-operative works we are almost ignored. The North is evidently possessed of undoubted vitality or it could not have held its own with other districts while suffering from this strain of continued neglect. Looking through another return, just to hand, we find that during the months of May and June last there was not a single man employed on Co-operative Road works in Auckland province while 2,250 were employed on such works in other parts, and yet it is an. undisputed fact that the roads of the North are the worst in the Colony.
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Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 226, 1 December 1893, Page 7
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