FIVE-YEAR PLAN
IMPROVEMENT IN COUNTRY ROADS GOVERNMENT’S INTENTIONS [United Press Association] HAMILTON, 26th April. “A Minister cannot be expected to go scrambling ‘hell for leather’ round the country receiving deputations from county councils. They should itemise needed roading improvements in order of urgency for submission to the Public Works Department,” said the Minister ot Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) to-day in answer to a county deputation. The Minister said that the Government intended to carry out substantia) improvements to country roads and to get farmers out of the mud. County councils would have to scrap old methods of construction and go in for modern machinery for major jobs. They had speeded up jobs by 50 per cent, and effected a saving of from 50 to as much as 90 per cent, in expenditure. The Government hud in mind a five-year plan for improving roads throughout the Dominion and wanted to go about it systematically and not in piecemeal fashion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 April 1937, Page 5
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160FIVE-YEAR PLAN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 April 1937, Page 5
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