MINISTER FOR PUBLIC WORKS
MOTOR-CAES STUCK IN THE MUD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Waitara, May 5. The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. It. M'Kenzie), accompanied, by tho members for tho district and county and borough representatives, went to the site of tho proposed Mokau Bridge to-day. Tho Waitara "Mail's" reporter with tho party telegraphed late- this afternoon that a deputation met tho Minister at Mokau, and pressed him For a subsidy of two pounds for every oho found by tho local body, but tho Minister firmly refused, saying tho most tho Government could do would be pound for pound. Tho party had
an experience in TongaporutU when homeward bound, through tho motor- ' cars being stuck in tho mud, horses being obtained to pull tho vehicles out. Tho Minister oxpeetcd to arrive back in Waitara at 4 p.m., but at 6 p.m. had not put in an appearance.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 6
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