ALLEGED WASTE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 3 April 1919, Page 8

ALLEGED WASTE

OVER GOVERNMENT MOTOR

REPAIR WORKS

ENQUIRY TO BE HELD

8Y ri"»E—PEKSS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT

(Received April 3, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. The House #of Lords adopted a motion demanding an enquiry into the Slough Motor Repairing Depot, on, which the Government had spent' £1,100,000 and proposed to spend a further £600,000. Critics declared that the depot was unnecessary, that the expenditure hitherto was wasteful in the extreme, and that it would be bet- J ter to cut the loss. The Government i vigorously defended the scheme, and i •welcomed enquiry.—Aus^-N-Z. Cable ■ Assn.. .v. . i