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Maximum Minimum Number Number Local Body or Department. Year. employed in employed in Nature of Relief Work provided. Remarks. any One any One Month. Month. Public Works Department 1926-27 1,160 74 Construction of new roads, including 1927-28 2,526 1,179 main highways, and on improving 1928-29 3,519 2,196 existing roads and main highways. State Forest Service .. 1926-27 164 50 Tree-planting, line-cutting, &c. 1927-28 480 60 1928-29 880 340 Lands and Survey Depart- 1928-29 42 8 Flax-planting, scrub and blackberry No relief work prior to 1928-29. ment cutting, draining swamp lands Auckland City Council .. 1926-27 142 6 Formation and improvements of 1927-28 1,003 19 various recreation and sports 1928-29 566 219 grounds. Wellington City Council.. 1926-27 181 13 Gorse-grubbing, tree-planting, level- Work of both light and heavy 1927-28 612 11 ling sandhills, road-formation; nature provided for unskilled 1928-29 319 10 general improvements to streets, workers. reserves, parks Christchurch City Council 1926-27 110 12 Cleaning and planting reserves, form - 1927-28 681 64 ing pool in park, regrading, street 1928-29 264 1 improvements, grubbing noxious weeds, kerbing, channelling, planting reserves, grading river-banks and forming playgrounds. Dunedin City Council .. 1926-27 76 6 Removing banks to widen streets, 1927-28 139 10 cutting deviations, tree-planting on 1928-29 78 2 reserves, top-dressing and improving reserves. Whangarei Borough Coun- 1926-27 37 1 Road and footpath formation. In No records kept of number of cil 1927-28 44 1 addition contracts for sewer con- men engaged on sewer-con-1928-29 .. .. struction were let, preference being struction in 1928-29. given to unemployed Onehunga Borough Council 1926-27 51 6 Roadwork and forming recreation 1927-28 5 1 reserve. 1928-29 92 3 Mount Eden Borough 1926-27 .. .. Excavation and formation work at In 1926-27 and 1927-28 conCouncil 1927-28 .. .. Nicholson Park and Mount Eden tracts for £1,686 17s. 4d. and 1928-29 .. .. Domain, and contracts for road- £2,904 17s. 6d. were let reformation and sewerage spectively, of which 70 per cent, in each year represented wages. Newmarket Borough Coun- 1926-27 21 11 Clearing and laying out area for cil 1927- 28 28 6 children's playground; excavating 1928-29 9 4 and levelling footways and roadways in certain streets. Hamilton Borough Council 1926-27 .. .. Forming footpaths, roads, and cut- Town Clerk unable to supply 1927-28 .. .. ting noxious weeds figures (maximum and mini-1928-29 .. .. mum) of men employed. Gisborne Borough Council 1926-27 .. .. Forming footpaths and roads; laying 1927-28 45 15 out reserves; tree-planting and 1928-29 37 6 putting in drains. Napier Borough Council.. 1926-27 .. .. Street improvements—kerbing, chan-1927-28 67 43 nelling, and slabmaking. 1928-29 88 36 New Plymouth Borough 1926-27 .. .. Footpath and street improvements ; Increase in cost of overhead Council 1927-28 100 8 forming and improving reserves charges, &c'., in 1928-29 was 1928-29 78 4 due to most of work undertaken being street improvements for which horses and lorries were required. In previous year 68 per cent, of the total cost was absorbed in wages paid for improving High School grounds and ; another 20 per cent, in wages for other classes of work. Wanganui Borough Council | 1926-27 37 4 1927-28 100 2 Principally road-construction. j 1928-29 75 1 Palmerston North Borough | 1926-27 14 3 Road-construction, resurfacing, layCouncil 1927-28 56 2 ing out Botanical Gardens and 1928-29 27 3 Park, gorse-grubbing, and watermain extensions. Lower Hutt Borough Coun- 1926-27 .. .. Footpath-formation, kerbing, and Town Clerk unable to supply cil 1927-28 .. .. channelling, and drainage-works number of men engaged in 1928-29 .. .. each month. Nelson City Council .. 1926-27 . . ... Road-construction and improve- Town Clerk unable to supply ! 1927-28 .. .. ments to Rocks Road Cliff; quarry- number of men employed, as | 1928-29 .. .. ing work was done by co-opera-tive gangs and leader paid , men in each case. Timaru Borough Council 1926-27 24 ! 10 Clearing gorse, forming tennis-courts, 1927-28 136 37 cleaning river, street - widening, 1928-29 99 8 footpath - construction, erecting baths, draining, reserve, roading. Invercargill Borough Coun- 1926-27 .. .. Street improvements, water and Information re maximum and cil 1927-28 .. .. sewerage reticulation, cleaning i minimum number of men 1928-29 .. .. water-mains j employed not available.