THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
PUBLIC WORKS . The first Public.. Works Statement presented by Mr Ransom is a businesslike document, unsensational but interesting. It- reviews the whole field of public works effort and reflects the problems of the time. Cue is again, impressed by the size of expenditure involved or contemplated.- Last year the Department expended more than eight millions, and the corresponding total for this year is nearly a million more. The table of estimated, cost of public works of all kinds shows that for railway works alone, includr ing additions and .improvements, over fourteen millions will be required for completion. New lines will (absorb
nearly ten millions. At the same,, time money is being poured out bn, roads. Quite properly the Ministerwishes to give setter road access tc>. ; backhlocks districts, people in which.deserve special attention, and he states
that in proportion to population anef. the number of motor vehicles New Zealand “has a leading place in its mile- , ( age of hard-surfaced roads.” . • ft —Auckland, Star. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1929, Page 4
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