COUNTY COUNCIL ROADING
MUST SECURE MODERN MACHINERY [Pen United Press Association.]’ HAMILTON, April 2fi. " Tlie Alinister cannot.be expected to go scrambling hell-for-leather around the country receiving deputations from county councils, but they should itemise needed roading improvements in the order of urgency for submission to the Public Works Department,” said the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Somplot to-day in answer to a county deputation. The Minister said the Government intended to carry out substantial improvements to country roads to get the farmers out of the mud. The county councils would have to scrap the old methods of construction and go in for modern machinery for major jobs. The Government had speeded up jobs by 50 per cent., and had effected a saving of from 50 per cent, to as much as 90 per cent, in expenditure. The Government had in mind a fiveyear plan for improving the roads throughout the Dominion, Air Semple added, and wanted to go about it svst/unatically and not in a piecemeal fashion.
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Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 16
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