“HELL FOR LEATHER” ROUND THE COUNTRY.
MB. SEMPLE EXPLAINS MINISTERS’ LIMITATIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Last Night. “A Minister cannot he expected to go scrambling ‘hell for leather’ round the country receiving deputations from county councils, but they should itemise the needed reading improvements in order of urgency for submission to the Public Works Department,” said Hon, B. Semple to-day in answer to a county deputation. The Minister said the Government intended to carry out substantial improvements to country roads and get farmers out of the mud. The county councils would have to scrap old methods of construction and go in lor modem machinery for major jobs. They had speeded up jobs by 50 per cent, and affected savings of 50 to as much as 90 per cent, in expenditure. The Government, he said, had in mind a five-year plan for improving roads throughout the Dominion and wanted to go about it systematically and not in piecemeal fashion.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 April 1937, Page 7
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