RIMUTAKA DEVIATION
PART OF NATIONAL PARTY POLICY STATEMENT BY MR THOMPSON A definite statement that the National Party would proceed with the Rimutaka tunnel project if returned to office, was made by Mr J. F. Thompson, National Party candidate for Wairarapa, in an address at Carterton on Saturday night f Mr Thompson said that the policy of the National Party was to complete public works in progress with all reasonable expedition, and by the use of the modern equipment available. A survey was being made of the tunnel project so that it was a work in hand. It had been agreed in 1924 that the work should be done and that it would be an economic proposition. Unfortunately, the depression intervened, but if the Forbes-Coates Government had been z still in power, the deviation would have been completed now, and not just promised. Labour was making a great song about the tunnel, but although it had been in office for three years, not a word was heard of the project until June of this year. It was the policy of the National Party to complete all public works in progress if returned to power, and the deviation would be one of those. ■ (Applause).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 4
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203RIMUTAKA DEVIATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 4
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