POLITICS AND PUBLIC WORKS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13930, 8 July 1919, Page 2

POLITICS AND PUBLIC WORKS

■ *>■: ' '. : ' ;■ ' + '—:.-.■■ '■■ - ... , i Poiiltcdflinß caone in for some oritiicisni aib the Napier Railway League meeting. .''Up to the present.,''' said 1 Mr Paiierso-n, "we baivte been tawing 1 * too. miCbth' peaice—-who is '-the Premier 1 Who is the 'Minister of Public Works? And who are th« : Ministers? 'Only rtien like ourselves. They have.only been l-liaiying all; along. Let them go out amid good riddance toi tihean'. 1' Mr Ellison saad thait a strong membership and a strong representation, of puibl'lc bodiies Was wanted. By the time this was formed election tiinie •would haive come roved— ihsvb was *he time *o get -tfo work and whi*n the proepeciti'Vie politician*, came round with halt in hand they'taoaild talk' to them stiraoghit. He •expressed Ih*« u|troogt contempt far the way the puibliio wodca motiiey wae, dallied: with amd ho hoiped tlhalt. with the neiw Goyfernmeinih tdningS could be done omj bet.t^ linesi. The ,prfcße«nib* pitiable doilicg out wias anything.but otofminoii^jctnsp. We did not want £10 or £5 a, year to keep u« swieot., buit he hoped things would be tiaJcem. in hand ■w'^oroußly and somietlbiiing donie before vr&yresra all dead- It was not much good g'onng aiheiad amjpfeeisiiniy upon this Govern* mfimlt that we want thitigs dione if we airte only goamg'. to sterti promnioias thalfc it will be done a<nd that the moniey is put oim ithe estdmiiftities, pnid Mr Clarksow.. "We g'e* a. feiw miilej? done amd "then/ tihe 'kiiils ait© " allowed to ?ro rustry. Iti' Canada' the nin-'ipi trunk In'ine from ■one; coast to the t^tiber .was ocinsitirucited at tha Vape>- of 'oaie mile a day. We oani Tiot. consitiruob at! the mime nr>,+© hertei, buiti we do not want the other extreme. We should nolti be piaitiisfied with whnitl we pjofri in the past." .On tlio railway to Motto two miiles had been, oomipleted in about fouif years, amd tihiisi wns celejbraitigd at Puha by a big gathering I.' There were tihree Miinisiters preseiwt, and the people oongiraitiulljated tiieml on tlhe maraner in which they were looking • after local inlterest.