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Reversal of Policy on Rivers Work? OBJECTION TO STATE GRANT A protest against the action of the Government in granting the Hawke's Bay- Rivers Board £30, (KK) to enabie it to employ manual labour on the rivercliversion scheme at Clive was made by Mr W. Puddle at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay braneli of the Farmers' Union in Hastings on Saturday afternoon. This action, said Mr Puddle, was in clirect opposition to tho declared policy ol: the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, who had promised to use up-to-date machinery on all Public W orks and to abolish wheel-barrows. "It now looks as though these same wheelbarrows are going to be rescued from the serap heap and used by tlie Rivers Board," added Mr Puddle. The Government was adopting this extraordinary policy while the farmer was forced to travel over roads which were a disgrace. The meeting decided that a strong protest in the matter should be sent to the union's head cffice.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 161, 26 July 1937, Page 6
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