OVERHEAD BRIDGES

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1937, Page 9

OVERHEAD BRIDGES

An Objection to Them BY SOUTHLAND FARMERS INVERCARGILL. April 23. Comment that expenditure on overhead railway bridges was not reproductive, and meant a 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. P. O’Shea, wrote that he had forwarded to the Minister of Railways the branch’s protest against th e erection of an overheard bridge on the IWaikaka line. He 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 of the others are trying to get as much spent in their district as possible. It is the principle to which I object, and not partcularly the individual bridges. A debt is being piled up. Few of us would take exception to reasonably reprodiictive expenditure but piling up of heavy debts resulting from unreproductive expenditure simply means that we will just have to carry the baby later on,’’