THE DEVIATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 6

THE DEVIATION.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,- —I shared with the great majority of your readers feelings of disappointment when I learned through your columns on Saturday evening that £IOO.OOO had not been definitely placed on the estimates for resumption of work on the local deviation. I note that Air Hodgens is in close touch with tile Minister of Railways re the matter, and as wise men are privileged to change their minds we should be glad to know that Air Hodgens is now a supporter of the scheme which aforetime he so consistently opposed.

What of Palmerston North’s unemployed? Here is work at hn nd for hundreds, hut the cash is going elsewhere because with one exception the public bodies of the city are, shall" I say, tactfully afraid to declare themselves. 'ihe one exception, the Terrace End "Progressive Society, I wish to congratulate on having the temerity to voice its opinion. Tlie Minister said the deviation must come and why not now, I ask, ere the public purse is depleted by the demands of other districts? If other public bodies of the city would follow the lead of tlie Terrace End Progressive Society the deviation would soon be an accomplished fact and the local unemployment problem would be for the time at least considerably cased.—l am, etc., PROGRESS.