PUBLIC WORKS
EXPENDITURE Of £9.000.000. MACHINERY MAIN ITEM. (Press Assn.) CHRtISTCHURCH, -May 6. An expenditure of £9,000,000 will; probably be provided for public works m the Budet for th«a financial year ! ending on March 31 next. Much of the expenditure, the' Minister for Public Works (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) said in an interview, would be on machines which the Government -were unable to have delivered last year and which were necessary to bring several ! big construction schemes into opera-.] tion. The carrying out of many schemes was impossible in war-time with a shortage of material and the reduction ; of 10,000 in the number of men on public works in the last year, the. Minister said. One scheme which would have to be held over was the perma-' nent drainage of Lake Ellesmere. "After the war, and when the men : come back, we may need many works I to give them productive employment," : said Mr Armstrong. "We have plans j ready. The Government have asked the department to prepare a programme of I works and that has been done. The I problem of employment will be dealt with as soon n,s it crops up. Included in the programme are works which we | would - like to h'o carrying nut now.! but which we find impossible to undertake while the war is on."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 132, 6 May 1941, Page 5
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