The Public Works Policy.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 160, 1 February 1902, Page 3

The Public Works Policy.

0 Says the Press :—The stoppage of public works goes on steadily, but surely, nod it is evident that in order to provide the prophesied surplus at the end of the year the consolidated fund must not be trenched upon for public works. It is evident that there is, or has been a very big screw loose somewhere, and that the public v/orks’ expenditure must have got com-j/iete-y out of hand. The Minister hr ("üblic Works states that in addition to the lines mentioned by •In Premier last night work had boon scooped <>n ibe GisborneKaruka and Groj.-uki-Waiau Railway 1. Thu Mun-iojr slates that in all those cases the vote has been exceeded, and it is nut intended to resume work before the end of the financial vear. * 'abinefc is by law allowed-to appropriate one-fourth of the previous year’s vote in each case for expenditure between Ist April and the end of June, but Mr Hall-Jonos decdnM to say whether work will be resumed when the end of the fins, uu.ii year arrives. Ho says the Pumic Works Department has bjon convoying settlers’ goods over t ic Toko section of the Strat-ford-Kawakawa line six and a half miles long, but will not be able to bund it over for passenger traffic uned the finishing touches have been put to it. Instructions have been received to discharge a hundred co-operative labourers on the Trunk railway. This is about a fourth of the total number engaged at present between Mangaonoho aud Taibape. ■ Thirty-five men wore dismissed from the Springfield end of the Midland Railway on Thursday.