SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1929, Page 3

SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK

W V QRK WILL GO ON

MINISTER’S ASSURANCE,

WELLINGTON, October 31

The ,auen won of the Minister of n'orks haying been called to the small .aippunt: of money authorised for ilie South Island Main Trunk Railway construction this year, he explained in .the .House early to-day that it was not the proportion of the amount whichiiwas. so .important as the spending of it. Work on this line was proceeding more expeditiously-than in the past,/ and notwithstanding the size of the current allocation, there lyould be no diminution in the place at which the work was pushed on., - Mr. Holland: How long will' it take to finish the. Westport-Inangahua line? T ; Th© Minister replied. that the estmuite years. The Government’s policy .was to push on the works to finalii^ r Sji^' ,^r^«®a: Yvliy had not be.en voted for the southern main trunk’waS that some systems in course of construction could, by using extra energy , and more money, be immediately brought to earning stages. Survey bwork had .to be done, and camps established, and he was not askingJfdr more money than could, lie spept.; was not a..question of local conditions, but of fsetting- the fullest advantage' from 4ne i. annual expendi. ture: 'if'