PUBLIC WORKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 13

PUBLIC WORKS.

_<••_% __ CANTERBURY AGAIN "LEFT." CONTRAST WITH AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph.—Tarliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. "Despite strong complaints from Canterbury regarding inadequacy of votes on the main Public Works Estimates for that province, the same feature is evident in the Supplementary Estimates/ declared Mr. J. McCombs, in the House to-night. He bad found that out of a total of £23,925 for roads and bridges on the Supplementary Estimates, Canterbury was goinz to get only something like five per cent. Last year it almost amounted to a scandal in the allocation of public moneys, Auckland getting £246.453 and Canterbury £12.251. There had been a pood deal of talk about inadequacy of the votes. They had two Canterbury Ministers in Cabinet, and the position warranted the assumption that they were doing nothing in support of Canterbury's needs. He had asked for a small for protection against sea erosion where dwellings were in danger of being swept away. He saw nothing on the Estimates, but there was a northern item for a straight out £300 to provide a road to a kauri park, which one person might visit in a year. ""There are two misstatements in the speech of the member for Lyttelton,"' protested the Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of Finance. "One was that Canterbury Ministers had been neglectful of the district, the other was in his arithmetic The total was £23.92.3, and Canterbury got £2200. practically ten per cent, not five." (Laughter i." Air. Ale Combs: We got £1350.