MONEY FOR WORK.
• QUESTION OF SUPPLY. LABOR AND THE WAR. Bv Telegraph—Special Correspondent. WELLINGTON, July 25. “It will he a marvel if I get n.s much money to spend this year a.s last. I hardly think I will,” said the Minister for Public Works (Hon. W. Fraser) this ('Yening in reply to an Auckland deputation in regard to the construction 1 of the North Auckland railway works. “I am, however,” said Mr Eraser, “going to take authority so that if I can get the money I can spend it.” The. votes, he said, would be about equal to last year and, in some cases, probably a little more. “There might,” said tlio Minister, “be some difficulty in regard to the labor available.” He supposed that fully 10,000 men who had been en- . gaged in connection with the primary industries' had gone to the war and it was likely that when shearing: and-har-vesting time came there would be a demand for labor. If such were the case no would have to relieve men from public works as the gathering of the harvest was of more importance than the construction of railways and roads. He would not, however, take men from works in thefffljforth ana send them to harvest wfi|M» thc South, but there would probatly he a certain amount of farm work in fhe north to bo provided for.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3991, 26 July 1915, Page 7
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