PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 29, 18 August 1888, Page 2

PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT.

': WBtMNGTOtf," Tim Day. . TherHouse met at 11 o'clock thisraorning for the delivery of the Public Works! Statement* of whieb,?the'following are the: ; mam features of interest tb> this district t -^Vote* will Be askedi for tne fcontnmav tion of the WoodVille toRailway, and .the; Ototral, Emlway/ k. vote of: #18iQ0.aTwiJL be^. asked fqr r the. construction;, of> .the I Pohangwaa' bridge^ The. eompietiont^ -of the TVpodyfl^ to Palmerston- Railway is coasideredi bjT theGroverDment ta be* a wor& of fee utmost iinpoptancev and a larger appropriation! would now be-, asked far it we're' it not tlist nothing would be- gamed byundertaking any further work* until the? Pphangina .bridge Kas been put ki» band.. It is proposed however, to. ask for avbte> next session for the whtole bafenc©- of jtheloan allocation, and to then, put all theworks in hand which are' feqtiredfor the completion of this radwafy at such feme* as will in insure their completion contemporaneously with the Pohangina and. the tunnel contracts; rGoveramentpropose to .ask Parbatuent for authority tospend £15,000'oti new settlements.l; A. further vote is proposed of £20,000^ .of which is required for expensesincurred m locating and for continuing the stipulated advances to the present-' settlers,^ and i'iSOOOr for further extension rof the system. Vote? to the exteot of L 168,604 for road* of all classes will be asked for. . ■ '