PUBLIC WORKS EXPENDITURE
TO TBB ZDITOB Of ffll PRESS Sir, —Regarding Mr Semple’s challenge to the Opposition “offering to resign” if they can prove he has squandered money unnecessarily on public works.’ If the Weka Pass is a sample of the work carried out on public wotks the Opposition will have an easy win, since it is now going into the fourth year since the Weka Pass deviation was l have no doubt if a good contractor had the work to do that he could have done* it. in, say, 10 or 11 months. I have frequently passed these men employed on the jobs, sometimes about 9 a.m. and also about 3 p.m., but never yet have I seen them working. They were like Mrs Micawber’s twins, always taking refreshments." I have also seen public works men working about schools. I have also seen the watersiders at work loading carcases. Well, if there has not been money squandered on these men, I don’t know what work is. The unfortunate producers are the only workers in this country, as I see it. Messrs Savage Semple talk of building a nation. They are, to my idea, building a nation of famous wasters and loafers.—Yours, EtC ’’ OLD PIONEER. August 28, 1939. ■
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22802, 30 August 1939, Page 6
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