RISING EXPENDITURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 10

RISING EXPENDITURE

HIGH COSTS OF PUBLIC WORKS WKLUXGTOX. Wednesd** t t ti.scussed in the House today. 44 . 1 ... - j7; er, ' ; T Po, Y' no ' beTndeulS" Without detov* * h# «* .Mr. C. A Wilkinson ftzmont). adv, mend’d ih • rec ««- l»- :.. -3. ' v'ii-rtver plseiMe ""S* a'la?^in^v , hi s h VOrkS oSpcndi^™ supported plea for caution : stat . ed that heavr *wnditure on rap. 1 r ,1.;. 1 ■ l ; V. 1 .' , ; > . resu.t in th^. being less to devote to other • The Transport problem w taJSfa difficult one. and more raU«s£ migrtt conceivably make it more . cult. Mr. W. J. Poison «'Stratford> ; urged that caution should be He thought serious consideraS: . should be given before imposing; heavy burden on Msteritv. as a r-c,* of lavish expenditure now Mr. J. S. Fletcher -Grey Lynn) «y, definite estimate of the cost shou:.j be lurnislied betore any railway con. i >truction was undertaken. That had . -t been done in the case of the So*r h Island Main Trunk railway. Mr. A. Harris ..Waitemata) cue couniT) \\ as going through * period of transport transition. while he did not suggest that of railways ivas past he urged that • l ie consideration should given t.> the effect of competition from other Mr. K. £>. Williams (Bay of Plenty» said it was no good ignoring motor competition with the railways and th® possibility of competition from air. He thought it would h® wise * 0 suspend heavy expenditure for a year