GOVERNMENT EXTRAVAGANCE.
FRIME MINISTER'S DENIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCfIURCH, May 3.
In the course of some remarks at the deputation to the Frime Minister ta-cay, Mr G. W. Russell, M.P., happened to refer to the Dunedin railway station, making a comparison in that respect with Christchurch. This led Sir Joseph Ward to defend the Government's action in erecting a new railway station in the southern city. First of all, he said, it was sometimes necessary for the Government to secure years beforehand sites for public purposes, such / as receiving homes, which had been ! mentioned just previously by the Mayor of Christchurch, and he added that in connection with the Wellington Post Office the country -would probably make£loo,oooout of one action of bis in securing an additional | site for building on. In regard to the Dunedin railway station he wished to say that there had been a quantity of gross misrepresentation —he did not refer to Mr Russell's remarks —but it was almost apalline io think of the wrung impressions given in cnnection with that building. The fact of the matter-was that the foundations had been laid by the Atkinson Government twenty years ago for a station to take the place of the old buildings, which were racognised as unsuitable, and the worst station in the four centres. In all large centres of population, private persons who were carrying out works connected with office establishment?, ' spent more than was spent in that direction on the Dunedin station. The truth was that for political purposes the cofst of reconstruction of railway yards, in Dunedin, as in Lhnstchurcb, Wellington and Auckland, had been added to the cist of the Dunedin station in a most impruper and unfair way. The Dunedin railway verandah had been made in the Dunedin Railway workshops The Government had not been extra- \ vacant; it was the duty of the Goj vernment to help local poople to have I some regard for architectural beputy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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324GOVERNMENT EXTRAVAGANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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