OPOTIKI ROADWORKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 865, 8 January 1930, Page 10

OPOTIKI ROADWORKS

RELIEF MEN TO BE TRANSFERRED

From Our Own Correspondent OPOTIKI, Today

In reply to a request by Mr. Iv. 8. Williams, M.P. for Bay of Plenty, that unemployed relief workers at present employed at the Gisborne end of the Opotiki-Matawai, via Waioeka Road, should be transferred to the Opotiki end immediately the work on the former section is completed, the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, states that arrangements . have now been madp to employ these workmen in the manner requested. Recently the Opotiki Chamber of Commerce wrote to the Government suggesting that as work on the Kiri-kopuni-Dargaville line would be completed early this year, the men should be transferred to the Bay of Plenty and a start made on the TaneatuaOpotiki section of the Main Trunk East Coast line. In a letter to Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P., the Minister of Public Works states that the work on the above line is not so far advanced as the chamber thinks. The question of commencing the line to Opotiki would not be lost sight of. As soon as some of tho works to which the Government is at present committed are out of hand, then it would be in a position to divert efforts in the direction desired by Mr. Williams.