CO-OPERATIVE WORKS.
STATEMENT BY MR FRASER. [Pee Press Association.] Eketahuna, May 23. The Hon. Mr Fraser visited Eketaluna to-day. Speaking at a luncheon, ho indicated the probability of a provision in the Local Government Bill for local bodies being allocated grants in lump sums and being given supervision of the spending of the same under safe-guarding conditions. Cooperative works were the cause oi much waste of money, and he war gradually introducing a system of small contracts. The Department would finance the'contractors in cases where they had no money for tools and such like. The State, by this system, would get full value for the money spent. He would not promise grants anywhere, but was travelling in order to get a first-hand knowledge, so that all applications might be dealt with on their merits, according to the means available when the Estimates were made up.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 16, 24 May 1913, Page 5
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145CO-OPERATIVE WORKS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 16, 24 May 1913, Page 5
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