THE PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10900, 3 November 1898, Page 4

THE PUBLIC WORKS ESTIMATES.

i A debate of considerable interest took place in the House of Represen- . tnkVes yesterday when the Public ■ Works Estimates came up Mr 6 ' Hutchison urged that greater W Kress should be innde in the construction of the Main Think railway, and drew attention to a very important point in connection with the line As the law stands, all the proceeds from lands purchased out of the special loan should come back to be available for expenditure on the line What has been done with the money is not clear but apparently it is taken " ,f e 7 al T nm, and goes to swell the surplue. If the Government had taken the means they ought to have done, the money coming from these lands would have amoJtedT a very large sum indeed. If the gentlemen who visited Wellington in thomteresJoftheMainTnXral" way had devoted attention to this subjecMheir efforts might have been yarded. Mv . Hutchison cS the Government with making usetf .thing to. delay work in regard to the.Tnukrmkay.andthisKoob! ™us that Mr. Seddon did tit di in his reply ; Hutchison argued that a sirJey for a

statements made letters of Mr. deputations, and v m T . Thompson and Mr. .** f Auok flwer to rT^Z^ V the land, make it qwte k haß enabled form the situation " ,t Ministers can now do