POST OFFICE EXPENDITURE.
CITY V. COUNTRY. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. In the House of Representatives on Friday night, Mr. Jas. Allen complained j that the Government was spending largo sums on public buildings in the cities at j the expense of the country districts, and' I instanced the expenditure involved in the j erection of new post oHlces at Auckland i Wellington and Chrislchurch. Sir Joseph Ward, in reply, said he would like to point out that the Government was not starving the country districts in the matter of post offices. At the present moment post offices were being built in country districts to the 1 aggregate amount of *£:21G,000. It was ' I impossible to delay the erection of the ' new post offices at Auckland and Wel- ■ lington and the new public buildings at ' Christ-church owing to the expansion of 1 'business. As regards the Wellington and 1 j Christchurch buildings, the savings in i i rent would pay the cost of interest on : construction.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 6
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