GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1915, Page 6

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Yesterday. . Replying to-day to a deputation representing various interested local bodies which requested assistance for the upkeep and improvement of the Manawatu Corge road, Mr. Eraser, Minister or I'n!ilit; Works, said the nationalisation of roads could not be done in one case and not in another. If motorists were to run in competition with the railways they must pay for it, but everyone wiio wanted motor roads made a howl when the suggestion to tax then was put forward. It was impossible to construct motor roads at present. He would like to help, but he thought those who used the road most should pay for it. Wellington, Tuesday. This morning the secretary of the Volunteer Sisters arrived in Wellington, and bad interviews with the lion, the Minister of Health, the Director of Military Hospitals, the Chief lleail'i Ollicer (Dr. Valintino) and the Depnty-Matron-iii-Chicf at the Health Department's ollice, in Parliament Buildings. The general matters of the department taking over the financing and controlling of the members of the Sisterhood, under tbe status of hospital probationers, was discussed at length, anil consideration. promised, with due regard to the urgency of the case. (lisborne. Yesterday. The Defence Committee has vole,l £10111) to Lady (iodicy's fund fur a Cairo convalescent home.