MONEY FOR WORKS

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13324, 26 July 1915, Page 7

MONEY FOR WORKS

QUESTION OF SUPPLY. LABOI ! K AND Tllli ; WELLINGTON, July 23. . "It will be a marvel if 1 get as niiicl money fo .spciid t!|is<,yeai' as last. . I hardly think I..will;'' said the Jfinistci of, Public, Works (the Hoii f - W, Frascrj this evening in reply to.anjAuf.klanUde ptitation ; in regard'.to ihe' eoustrnctioii of tlie North Ancltlaiid- railway. ,aw, vMr'.Frascri: I ' goinj to take authority for that. ' . If J i gel the money 1, can spend it, ■' Tl|e -votes, hi said, would be .about, equal to those ot last year) ami in soine cases probably f little more. • ■ There might-!be solnc'ilifli culty in regard to the labour available He supposed thatsfullv 10,000 men wht had been engaged in connection witli the primary industries had gone to tht war, and it was likelv that when shear ing.and -harvesting: time • caiiie • thou would be a demand.for labour. If sncl was.the ease he would have to-release the .men trour public works, as tin gathering of harvest was of more'im poitance than the coilstnietion of mil ways and roads. lie would not tak( men from works in- the: north: to semi them to harvest work, in the, south,-bul tlieie would probably bo a ceitai. -amount of faim woik in tho north tf be piovided foi.