A local unemployment relief scheme to clear the land, and the availability of trained instructors from the Department also initially assisted Mareeba farmers.
32.
Designed as part of the Queensland Government's unemployment relief program of the 1930s, the building is important evidence of this important statewide initiative.
33.
The form and architectural style of building is more typical of interwar brick school buildings, particularly those constructed under the Unemployment Relief Scheme.
34.
As the construction was considered unemployment relief, the constructing authority began to look for men who would do the work in their places.
35.
It was one of the first major new roads constructed for use by motor traffic, and was designed as an unemployment relief project.
36.
This gathering issued a convention call for a more formal New York Conference on Unemployment Relief, which was held on January 13, 1931.
37.
It was constructed at the height of the Great Depression, using mostly unskilled labour and with the application of Unemployment Relief Scheme funds.
38.
Much of the early construction work was done in the 1930s as a Unemployment Relief Camp was set up to build the base facilities.
39.
In 1922 he became Minister for Public Works, where he administered a new system of unemployment relief and earned the respect of the Unions.
40.
According to his account, more than 100, 000 people took to Mianyang's streets in late June after they suspected officials of embezzling unemployment relief funds.
