P.W.D. CONDEMNED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 January 1932, Page 6

P.W.D. CONDEMNED

AWAKEN. .

Sir,. — The subject matter of "Visitors" letter, appearing in your issue of January 19, is an apt illustration of this and previous Government's absolute disregard of the. financial interests of those they are presumed to represent in constructional cost (such as the Blue Bath) and other matters. It is an undeniahle fact that the Puhlic Works Department has been, and is, a sore on-the now impoverished body of the Dominion and nothing short of its entire eliminaticn will givo the public confidence in the avowals of Ministers to appreciabiy curtail public expenditure. It is undeniahly generally regarded as a bottomless sink into which is annually poured the har.d earned savings of a multitude of people who are already insufferably taxed. There should be no half measures. Let the Public Works Department be buried and f orgotten, if it can be, and in its place permit the people who are paying for the upkeep of the country and its developments, a right, too long withheld, to participate through % • * -j ■

public tender in all such constructional works as may be justified from a point of view of the present economic position. The saving will be incalcnlable. — I am, etc.,

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