PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.
(By Telegraph—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. A return presented to Parliament to-day shows that 16 wagon trailers have been for five years lying idle and discarded on public works jobs throughout the Dominion. Their total value amounts to only £3803. The number of workers’ houses built by the Railway Department at Frankton is 143. Only three are standing empty, but they will be occupied soon. , The number of departments housed in private buildings in Wellington is 18; the total annual rent paid for them is £14,938.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 290, 6 November 1929, Page 10
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