RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
PRINCIPLE OF CONCENTRATION. (Pub Dotted Fresh Asbociatiok.) AUCKLAND, January 5. In the course of a speech at the' opening of the. Waiuku railway the Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister of Public Works) explained how tho principle Of concentration had been decided upon on certain railway lines, thus bringing into pse - lines on which tho capital cost had been heaviest, and! where money was lying idle. He emphasised that in the allocation of money due attention would bo given to providing fbr| employment to those out of work. He reiterated the principle of the different departments interested in railway construction, tho ' Agricultural, Railways, and Public Works all working in unison, thus ensuring the earliest construction of lines possible.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18446, 6 January 1922, Page 5
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