DAY IN PARLIAMENT
PUBLIC WORKS POLICY
The'last ten classes of the main Estimates were passed by the House of Representatives in an hour and a half yesterday. In transacting this business in a little over. six sittings tho House made the greatest progress recorded in this direction for several years.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied in debating tho Public Works Statement, which was given a generally favourable reception. The chief point of Labour's criticism was that standard public works were being carried out imder relief conditions of pay. Members were mostly concerned with advocating works affecting their own districts, and once again Mr. E. F. Healy (Government, Wairau), to the accompaniment of light banter from the rest of the House, appealed to the Government to complete tho South Island Main Trunk railway. Somo of tho Labour members took exception to the remarks of Mr. S. G. Smith (Government, A rew Plymouth), who defended tho Government's policy of carrying out relief schemes within the Public Works Department, but the debate later settled down to a dull level and was not completed when the House rose at midnight. (
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 10
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