Further Reduction In Public Works Expenditure
Press Assn.
Wellington, Last Night.
A further reduction of public works throughout the Dominion during the year is evidenced in the Public Works statement presented to the House of Representatives to-day by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Nett expenditure for the year amounted to £10,599,566, of which £5,750,175 was from loan monies and the balance from loan recoveries, war expenses revenue and taxation. The estimated nett expenditure under the public works account for the current year was £1,110,000, with . £2,000,000 from the electric supply account and £1,692,200 from the main highways account, making a total of £4,802,200. Excepting urgent and essential works, no new highways had been started during the year and expenditure from the public worlts fund for railways improvements amounted to only £147,641, against £1,087,337 the previous year. The erection of new department buildings, with the exception of hospital buildings, had almost ceased.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1942, Page 2
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