RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 70, 24 April 1929, Page 7

RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT

APPROVAL GIVEN FOR POXD RECLA5IATI0N. OTJIEIi SCIIE5IKS CONSIDERED. Proposals for putting in hand work for tlio relief of iinemploynient in Napier were under review at a special meeting of tlie Uneniploynient Cornmittec yesterday afternoon. Mr W. E. Barnard, 5LP., who presided, reported that tliere wero now 160 men on the register of lineniploycd, of wliom 111 were married with depeiulants. So iar a.s jobs for absorbing tlie men wero conccrned, lie rcqiorted that tlie Public: Works Department had approved of tlie Hawke's Bay Rivers Board proposal to spend £.350 in tree eutting and tho Napier Harbour Board's £1600 schenie for filling in one of tlie ponds so as to reclaim it. "With tiiese approvals wo sliould have something delinite in a very sliort time," he said. "We should be enabled to maice a fair start on the redueing of tlio numbers of tliose out of work." Ihe comniittee diseussed tlie question of employing men in conneetion with tlie roading work 011 the roolaimed 23-aere block and it was deiiled to take tlie matter up with tlie Harbour Board. A suggcstion was made tliat men might be used 111 cxcavating work 011 a privale soetion and tliis was left to a sub-coinniittee. It was also resolved to go into the question of catering a tender for a eooperative party for tree-cutting work for tbe Hawke's Bay Children's Tlomes.