Helping the Backblocker.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 210, 8 September 1904, Page 3

Helping the Backblocker.

a m^te^^™ 0 * 8 ' (Per Press Associatk \e r 7 WELLINGTON, Septan., Replying to a Southlan<l di, nation who complained of the ce. i,y tion of work on the local railwu line, Hon. W. Hall-J o nes said there was greater necessity now for prudence in expenditure than at anytime since he to 0 k office. The votes for public works this year would be considerably less than last year, and of the applications for roads alone he woufd have to discard at least nine-tenths. 'lhe maintenance charges should be borne by local bodies, leaving ihim free to spend all money available on new works. He said unhesitatingly (hut the nm n who had no track to his land should have, 'the lirst consideration, and the man ' with only a six-foot track should be the next consideration. Mr HallJoneS stated that he had tried to hit upon some means of getting out timber from the bush where (here were no railways, in order to prevent in clearing the Hnd ; fcVt he could get very little

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