PUBLIC WORKS PROBLEMS
CONFERENCE TO BE CONVENED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 3. “ Wo are going to wear out on tho job,'not rust out,” said the Minister of Public Works (Mr 11. Semple), in discussing his department’s programme to-day. There was much work left in the departmental pigeonholes. The Gisborne-Napier railway was , one of the pigeons, and, he added jocularly, “ there are not many feathers in its tail, either.” Mr Semple said he proposed to call a conference of engineering chiefs in Wellington in the near future for the purpose of discussing every aspect of the public works and engineering problems. They would then draft a national scheme of public works. Referring to the Gisborne line, Mr Semple said He had instructed his'engineers to prepare immediately an estimate of the cost of putting the line back into repair again with tho intention of ; starting work as. soon as possible, He would not be a bit surprised if it cost the Government anything from £50,000 to £IOO.OOO since the work was stopped. The capital expended on the work already completed was somewhere near £500,000. The Minister added that he hoped to place between 1,000 and 1,200 men on the line when it was started.
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Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 20
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204PUBLIC WORKS PROBLEMS Evening Star, Issue 22228, 4 January 1936, Page 20
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