Further Public Works

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 13

Further Public Works

Sir.—With the heavy drought and the consequent lose on the butterfat cheques and wool still down, it must be obvious there will be less money for New Zealand to spend, and this will mean that unemployment figures will rise. Therefore it behoves our Government to look ahead and prepare for the future. In Wellington we have only tlie erection of the new Government Life building, the completion of the new railway station, the Paremnta bridge and road to Pukerua Bay., and the Western Hutt Road to relieve the situation. The City Council’s contribution depends upon tne success of a poll for £160.000, unless tue council invokes the aid of the Health Department to sanction, without a poll, the work on stormwater drainage or yater supplies. So the Government will still have to look around for further public works, and what could be of better use for development than the completion or the Wainui-o-niata tunnel? Apparently this important link with the lower end ot the Wairarapa Valley has been forgotten of late a. . .. In England the Government is realising the soundness of improving its reading system and the Government does not hesitate to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on one section of a road, know people will doubt the statement, but they have only to turn up any English motor weekly paper to verify it—l am, etC ” LOOK AHEAD. Wellington, February 13.