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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1939, Page 10

“The greatest man that ever lived was Johnson—broadminded, tolerant, generous, big-hearted and brilliant, yet he died with all his talents unsuspected." "How did you manage to find out so much about him'. 1 " "I married his widow." At a time when Government expenditure generally is soaring into almost astronomical figures, it is heartening to the taxpayer to learn of one British Government department which, at the moment, is devoting much of its energy to devising ways and means for saving money, says a writer in the Sunday Times. That department is the Ministry of Transport, which is now responsible for the trunk roads of Britain, and which controls grants from the Road Fund to local authorities for their own approved schemes. In new construction and widening schemes the pruning knife is being applied throughout, and the resultant saving is certain to run into many millions of pounds.