NOT TO BE SMUGGLED THROUGH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 4

NOT TO BE SMUGGLED THROUGH

HarbQur-Loan Enabling Legisl^tioii INFQRMATION FRQMIS10 A delinite assurance that a!l the necossary information and p.uhlicity would be given o.n the praposal of the Napier Harbqur Board to have iegis-. lative provision made tQ obtqin additional money to complete its w-ork was gir'en by the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., in his pre-sessional addrqss in Na-piet ' ia=.t evening. ' ' The harbour work appears to he tLaking good progress . . . Mi' Barnard began. A vdice: No. "But it is clear tliat the co.st will be more than. was anticip.ated," Mr- Barnard continued. 'vTbis is parUy through fsilur.e of contracts, partly through incre'ased cost of wages and raarerials, and partly because of the great difficulty found in accurately es-' timating costs for such work as; this. "It H hoped that provision pf thg necessary additional money will be made through a clause in a Government iocal Bjll or wasMnK"up Bili," he added. "But I do not thiuk it is the in-. tention of the Harboqr Board, qr the chairman of that board — and eertiiniy it is not my intention — that this provision should b.e smuggled through withcut due publicity. ' I give yo,u my as, surance that all the necessary inforina*. tion will be given to the ratepayers or ail the district. "Qbviously it is ixi tlie interests of the district as a whole that the w-o.rk should -be carried through expeditipq^ ly so that the whole Harbotir Bqard district shall aehieve the ob'jects oi its cOnstructiop as quickly as possible," he said.