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"In districts in which exceptional distress prevails, the Board
recommend that the Guardians should confer with the local
autherities, and endeavour to arrange with the latter for the
execution of works on which unskilled labour may be immediately
employed.
"These works may bo of the following kinds, among others :—
"(a) Spade husbandry on sewage farms.
"(b.) Laying out of open spaces, recreation grounds, new
cemeteries, or disused burial grounds.
"(c.) Cleansiug of streets not usually undertaken by local
autherities.
"(d.) Laying out and paving of new streets, &c.
"(a.) Paving of unpaved streets, and making of footpaths in
country roads.
"(f.) Providing or extending sewerage works, and works of
water supply.
"In all cases in which special works are undertaken to meet
exceptional distress, it would appear to be necessary, first, that
the men employed should be engaged on the recommendation of
the Guardians as persons whom, owing to previous condition and
circumstances, it is undesirable to send to the Workhouse, or to
treat as subjects for pauper relief ; and, second, that the wages
paid should be something less than the wages ordinarily paid for
similar work, in order to prevent imposture, and to leave the
strongest temptation to these who avail themselves of this
opportunity to return as soon as possible to their previous
occupations.
"When the works are of such a character that the expense
may properly be defrayed out of borrowed moneys, the local
autherities may rely that there will bo every desire on the part of