"MONUMENT TO ALL."
P.W.D.'S WORK PRAISED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Thursday.
Appreciation of the efforts of the Public Works Department during the year was expressed by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, at a morning tea attended by the heads of the Department. The year's work was a monument to all of them, he said, from the men who worked with the ehovel to the engineers. When war broke out its responsibilities became greater and its task heavier, with, the result that work had been done at record speed _ The Minister emphasised how the outbreak of war had justified the decision to mechanise the Department's industries. It had proved its value in the construction of aerodromes and military camps. It was aerodrome construction that had prompted him to investigate the advisability of mechanising mtior jobs. There were now a hundred aerodromes in New Zealand, and military aerodromes equal to anything in the
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 302, 22 December 1939, Page 8
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