ROADING THE BACK-BLOCKS.
GOVERNMENT'S SPECIAL GRANT. THE WORST DIFFICULTY. PROBABLE SCARCITY OF LABOUR. BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, October 25. The scarcity of labour is likely to be the worst difficulty of the Roads Department in expending the special grant of £250,000 for back-blocks roads this year. There are 2,734 men at work now —a thousand more than this time last year —and ths Department could place another four bundrsd in various parts of the country. The main purpose to which the back-blocks allocation will be applied will be the widening of bridle tracks into dray roads, and it is expected that between four and five hundred miles can be dealt with during the year. A [new method of allocating the expense of superintendence and administration enables the whole of a road'grant to be utilised for the actual work of road making.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 5
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141ROADING THE BACK-BLOCKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3027, 26 October 1908, Page 5
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