METAL FOR TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1922, Page 4

METAL FOR TARANAKI.

SUPPLY NEAR NEW PLYMOUTH. WORK FOR PRISONERS. (By Wire. —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington. Last Night. During the debate on the Imprest Supply Bill to-night Mr. 8. G. Smith (Tar'anaki) referred to the shortage of road metal in Taranaki. He said that near New Plymouth, in the Carrington Road district, was an area on which prisoners could be most profitably employed. Within Bor 9 miles of the town was an almost inexhaustible supply of excellent stone, suitable for road making and building. . The area was a good locality and a railway for its development could be constructed at a comparatively small cost. The Taranaki province was in need of good metal; the shortage was so acute that some local bodies liad to go so far as to get metal from Belmont at a cost varying from eighteen to thirty shillings a yard. He believed that if the Minister in charge of the Prisons Department looked into the suggestion made the Minister would find it a payable proposition for the Government to secure the area referred to, establish the prison there and work the quarry.