The Premier and Public Works.
Speaking of public works at the Hokitika meeting Mr Seddon said the expenditure this year would be considerably less that last year. Although there was an appropriation of something like £2,300,000, they had only spent some 75 per cent, of that amount. How, then, in the face of such a fact, could they be accused of squandering? It was not because they were short of the money, because when the last loan was floated they had some hundreds of thousands of pounds in the Treasury to credit of public works The real reason for non-expenditure was on account of the great prosperity of the colony and consequent universal employment of labour. An injury would have been inflicted on the colony had labour been withdrawn from industrial and farming pursuits. On the 31st March the public works fund stood in a better position that it had for the last ten years.
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Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1903, Page 2
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155The Premier and Public Works. Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1903, Page 2
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