PUBLIC MONEY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 December 1920, Page 5

PUBLIC MONEY

EXPENDITURE OF VOTES

SOME OFFICIAL FIGURES.

(By Telegraph—Special to the Star.)

WELLINGTON Dec. if When the Central Progress Lease©, decided to interview the Prime Minister and the Minister of Public* Works regarding the allocat*ME* 7*£ IC -"joney fo(r Wellington and the adjoining districts a «xA f deal was said about the enormotfe amount of money secured from the Public Work? jW by the Auckland vmce and the larger proportion of votes expended m that large area. It was expected that the league would raige this issue at to-day's deputation, but as Colonel Mitchell, who had prepared the critical statement, was- unavoidably absent tie speakers generally kept clear of this controversial s ide of their +W Ue + l S- t4<iU^ Mr- Maasey declared that the question would have to be threshed ou* sooner or later ' PtSf.^ D-T J- ?• Varies, Minister ©f the Mraister afSor the deputatf™jf ►net, but if figures are taken out over ex-tent governed by the requests of S bodies, and where a great many^appS! tions were made for work which is nofc IS^T*' d M±en this Sohey T s not spent, the ratio may look very smallnde urgent jefuirementa and «W Auckland have arranged for substantial' jnth the substantial e^f nditure o f pub calleT^ 7 *°- Whlch atlention S« GSr W?i h^? obtained from the PublicAuckland' 4 qo~ 717 „ -. %3s&z ,-■■ -gjfg 4| Otago and: Soitt ■M 8 °6-1 , <T >?. 1.218,129 50.S *5497 »W«T elll°f ton were ~<4*3,4y/ and expenditure £7Q +h«. percentage beinff 17« the jgjwS,&Vind SSSS expeniture «» 878, ps.oeS'a"" 49 o