THE HOUSE.
" ■ -t ■ •The House,of Representatives met at $.30 p.m."' Mr. A. S: MALCOLM (Clutha) reported on behalf of 4W committee appointed, ; to consider the Macdougal Trust Estate Bill. The. Bill * endment, and- \vitli'"'a' ! 'recofrimenc!ati'6n , that it'b"e allowed to proceed. ROADS AND BRIDGES. V PREPARING FOR ESTIMATES. • Mr. Gv AV. RUSSELL. (Avon) asked when the'-Public Works', Statement would be brought down. . : Tho Hon. W, : ERASER (Minister for Public Works)'said that it -would- depend largely "upon-the '" progress made . with tli<£ business* "before "the" House. There were a considerable number of Bills Dhat would- have to be dealt with before tie Statement. was introduced-. It, was not competent td" 'bring in , the Public YiVks-Statement until 'towards tho cl.oso; of tho session. If it. were broiightfln sooner it would bo difficult to keep';:ii quorum in the House, i) If members-knew what they were going to get i/hoyiwould all be off home." yUp till he bad received, applica- '. tions froot .all.'byerr.tlie, and ho was, now-going -through them with a view to putting as many as possible on the Estimates..'.The Minister,-mentioned that he obtaining ;reports : from ihis' . engineers upon the various applications: 1 The total amount applied for, ho added, was something like four times as ;much as could bo provided, and four,times as, much work was proposed a's could be •'carried out during ,tno'year. It'would take fivo years to complete the uncompleted i;oads in this country. To satisfy the demands of every settler in the country was not an easy task. He would like to do it, but neither the money'nor , the labour could be . found to do the work. Before closing the, Estimates, he intended to ask each member representing a country district to -confer with liim regarding the most,vrgent works in his district. He.would not ask members to take any part in cutting.down votes— that responsibility ho must take himself r-4>ut tfho suggested.'consultations would tend to prevent important works being overlooked. What no would: ask members to do was to'indicate the order of preference in which works should bo carried out. Finally the Minister stated that the work upon which ho was at present engaged would take a month or six weeks to complete. . Mr. Russell asked w-hothor it was intended to continue this year the usual, and bridges grants under the Public Works vote. . .. ; Mr. Eraser: Yes.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 4
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