50 years ago

WESTERN Victorian municipalities should have planned unemployment relief works ready in case they received Government relief money, an experienced municipal officer, Mr. Neville Baldy, said yesterday. Municipalities would be able to help unemployed men and themselves more if they could start properly planned relief works soon after gaining any financial allocation, he said. Mr. Baldy, of Ararat, was a veteran member of the now disbanded Glenelg Regional Committee. The committee represented the Western District’s regional interests from the late 1940s to earlier this year. Mr. Baldy’s comments follow news this week of Australia’s steadily climbing unemployment figures and the Australian Government’s planned anti- unemployment measures.