Main Highways in Horowhenua County
NO COMPLETION THIS YEAR.
WOULD ABSORB HALF SUM AVAILABLE FOR DISTRICT.
From Our Parliamentary Reporter. WELLINGTON, Last Night.
Mr W. H. Field (OtaM) asked the Minister of Public Works to-day whether the necessary money would bo quickly made available to enable the Horowhenua County Council to carry out its plans for the completion and paving of the final 18 miles in the Horowhenua County of the main Wellington-Auckland highway? “Unless this money is provided at once, over one hundred men will be thrown out of employment and valuable plant and a large sum of loan money bearing interest and sinking fund, will lie idle,” said Mr Feld. The Minister replied: “The Main Highways Board is recommending the provision of such funds as finances available to it for construction purposes during the current financial year will permit. This will enable reformation to be carried out by the Horowhenua County Council during the current financial year. To provide sufficient to complete the 18 miles mentioned during tho present year would absorb almost half the amount available for expenditure in tho Wellington West highways district, which includes eight other counties, seven boroughs and one town district.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7019, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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198Main Highways in Horowhenua County Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7019, 19 September 1929, Page 6
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