1922.] Works for the Relief of Unemployment. 49J^ 



11,000, and there has not been the least trouble with them 

 anywhere. The largest number employed during any single 

 week was 8,165 for the week ending 6th May. 



Where the site of the works has been within a short radius 

 of an urban centre a fair proportion of townsmen have been 

 employed, but taking the country as a whole, a summary of 

 the Inspectors' reports indicates that from 80 to 90 per cent, 

 of the men were genuine agricultural or other rural workers. 



Analysis of Cases. — The following table gives an analysis of 



the cases dealt with in the various areas and the acreages 

 estimated to have been benefited by the works : — 



Area 

 No 



No. of Cases, 



Submitted by : 



Totals. 



Approx. 

 Number of 

 Acres 

 benefited. 



Drain- 

 age. 



Sea 

 Defence. 



Water 

 Supply. 



Drainage 

 Authorities. 



County 

 Councils. 



(1) 



41 



Nil 



2 



36 



•8 



2 



44 

 2 



39,700 





63 





2 



31 

 4 



32 

 3 

 2 



G3 

 2 



44,600 

 10,500 



{■^) 



25 





3 



9 



16 

 3 

 3 



25 

 3 

 3 



29.000 

 2,.500 



(■i) 



M 



2 



2 



35 

 2 



k; 



2 



51 



2 

 2 



95,800 

 12.000 



(5) 



(0) 



22 







82 



10 



14 



8 



8 

 24 



10 



22 

 32 

 10 



73,800 

 17,100 



76 



Nil 



27 



10 



66 

 27 



7G 

 27 



16.600 



Tot-ils 



281 



44 



! « 



j 



149 



1 



22 



j 371 



341,600 



It will be observed that the number of drainage, sea-defence 

 and water-supply schemes carried out by County Councils 

 numbered 222 and that those carried out by Drainage Authori- 

 ties numbered 149. The division of costs was not, however, 

 in similar proportion, for whereas the total estimated cost of 

 County Council cases was ^83,000 or an average of about £374 

 per scheme, the total estimated cost of Drainage Authorities' 

 schemes was £299,000 or an average of about £2,000 per 

 scheme. 



