Roads and Bridges.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 23 October 1914, Page 2

Roads and Bridges.

Great South Roa 1 (Huntly to Rangiriri), (on account of £1500), (£1 fot £1), £150; j Great South Road (Huntly to [ Taupiri), (on account of £950), j £500; | Great South Road (Mercer to j Rangiriri), £203; { Kimihia, £100; | Matahuru to Te Hoe (£1 to £1), l £SO; Matahuru to Taupiri, £100; Matahuru to Mangapiko i Valley, £100; ! Matahuru Valley to Proctor’s |(£l for £1). £6oo;' Ohinewai Railway Station to Ngarua Block (£1 for £1), £1000; Rangiriri to Churchill (£1 for £1), £SO; j , Raynor’s Road, £SO; Tailin']: i (i irg - Ro id. £IOO ; 4 i Taniwha to Wairangi Railway Static n, £IOO ; Te Kauwhata Railway Station j Road (£1 for £1), £SO; . ifco River Bridge (Ran- ! giriri), £SOOO ; | Wairangi Railway Station to Matahuru Riv r ( .n account of £1904). (£1 for £1), £500; Huntly to Kahuruliuru £SO ; ! Huntly to Pukemiro, £IOO ; Huntly to Rangiriri West 1 for £1), '£loo ; Mangawhara Stream Bridge ! (Proctor’s), (£1 for £1), £2OO ; Mangawhara Stream Bridge (Taupiri), (£1 lor £1), £3OO ; Huntlv VV. to Ngaruawahia (£1 for £1), £IOO ; Proctor’s Road (Taupiri), £200; Puriri to Huntly (£1 for £), £IOO ; Taupiri to Rewi Settlement (on account of £1000),(£1 for £1), j £350. Waingaro-Ngaruawahiu road i to Pukemiro (£1 for £), £SO. Back-Blocks Roads. Mangawhara, £l5O ; j Hetherington Road, £2OO ; Huntly to Pukemiro (deviation) ; £500; Rangiriri S. D., Blocks IX and X,Sections 1 and6(roac! through), ! £150; Whangape Parish (Sections 126, 127 and 128). £100; ROADS TO OPEN UP LAFD FOR SETTLEMENT : Matahuru Block, £7O ; Roto Ngaro Block, £2OO ; j In his introduction the Minisj ter spoke as follows: — In one respect at least the Statement which I have the honour to submit to the House this evening is unique, in that it is the first time in the history of the Dominion that a Public Works Statement has been delivered during the currency of a war involving n arly all the great Powers ef Europe, i My colleague the Minister of Finance announced in his Budget that it was proposed t) provide largely increased ways ; and means for public-works purj poses this year, but that state- | ment was penned prior to the j outbreak of hostilities and when the money-market was favourable, j The events that have happened | since have rendered it doubtful ! whether money can now be i borrowed on advantageous terms, and on the satisfactory deter- ! ruination of that question must, |of course, depend the carrying- ! out of any extensive publicworks proposals. j The Statement and estimates submitted to the House this even- ; ing have been prepared on the I assumption that the requisite I funds will be procurable when j needed; but if, unfortunately, I that proves to rbe eroneous, then, |of course, the programme will necessarily have to be curtailed j so as to keep our expenditure j within our means. In my last year’s statement I i said, that the buplio-works expentiiture of the year 1912-13 was, the largest for any j single year for over thirty , years, and I am now able to state that the epxenditure of 1913-114, was even greater, having amounted to no less a sum than ,£2,949,991 -viz., £2,824.526 out of the Public Works Fund and qjllied special accounts, and £125,486 out'-ef the Consolidated 1 Fund. /