SETTLERS AND ROAD WORK.
Some time ago the employing of settlers on road work in the district, formed the subject of discussion at a publi& meeting held in the Ohura district. The matter was placed before Mr Jennings with the request that he should recommend the employing of settlers where possible. The representations were forwarded by Mr Jennings to the Minister for Roads and Bridges, who has forwarded the following reply to the member for the district:—
" With reference to your representations to me a short time ago on the subject of the Waikaka Road, I have now the honour to inform you that the Department endeavours as far as possible to give work to settlers in bush dsitricts whenever the nature of the work enables this to be done. The District Road Engineer reports although he has personally interviewed a number of settlers in the hood of the Waikaka Road, very few ; of them were prepared to work on the road during the milking season. He states that in all cases throughout his district the settlers are first offered road work in preference to outsiders, and that he has followed this practice in the Waikaka district."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 124, 21 January 1909, Page 2
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197SETTLERS AND ROAD WORK. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 124, 21 January 1909, Page 2
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