PILING UP DEBT
GOST OF OVERHEAD RAILWAY BRIDGES (Ter United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, April 23. The comment that expenditure on overhead railway bridges was not reproductive and meant the piling up of debt was made at a meeting of the Southland provincial executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to-day. The Dominion secretary (Mr A. R, O’Shea) wrote that he had forwarded to the Minister of Railways (Mr Sullivan) the branch’s protest against the erection of an overhead bridge on the Waikaka line. Ho added that it was “ a local matter.” Mr W. H. Ward (Lumsden) dissented from this opinion. “It is a national _ question,” _he declared. “ There is little use in one province taking this up when all the others are trying to get as much spent in their_ districts as possible. It is the principle to which _ I object, not particularly the individual bridges. Few of us would take exception to reasonably reproductive expenditure, but the piling up of heavy debts resulting from unreproductive expenditure simply means that we will just have to carry the baby later on.”-
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 9
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180PILING UP DEBT Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 9
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