EAST COAST RAILWAY.
STATEMENT BY MINISTER,
"TIME FOR TEMPORARY HALT."
Cut telegraph.—own CORRESPONDENT.'.!
Wellington, Wednesday. Interviewed to-day, tho Hon. William Eraser, Minister for Public Works, made the following reply to certain statements recently mado by tho Herald regarding his administration.
" The accuracy of tho statement of the New Zealand Herald in its leading article of April 5, concerning my alleged neglect of the important East Coast Railway," said the Minister, "will bo best gauged when the Public Works Statement has been delivered. The temporary cessation of work on the Gisbonie-Wairoa line, beyond Ngatapa, has been cited as proof of this neglect. I may as well state that owing to the extra large number of men engaged on this section during the last winter, the expenditure on the said section exceeded tho voto on tho Estimates by about £16,000, so it was high timo a temporary halt was railed."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16203, 13 April 1916, Page 6
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