THE HOLE THROUGH THE HILL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13887, 21 June 1938, Page 7

THE HOLE THROUGH THE HILL

PRIME MINI'IKK ON RIMUTAKA SCHEME. Electric Telegraph—Press Association MASTERTON. June 19. Responding to the speeches of welcome at Mastertmi Mi Savage said he had been speaking 1(5 or 17 times a day for the past week but would do his best. His health was Al. As to the Riir.iitaka deviation. Messrs Roberts and Robertson had been at him for ijuite a long time concerning the boring of a hole through the hill. The Government’s decision was not as somebody had said a matter of catching votes but whether it caught v of es or not the hole was going through the hill. Unlike some of the past Governments there were at least ten or a dozen men in,this Government who could put the hole through the In'll themselves. The Minister of Public. Works was not the least ot ! those. Deelmiiagain that there was no question of a pre-election reeve, Mr Sr age said the job would be begun at the earliest possible iiioimnt It w. s a question of developing Wairarapa, Mr Sac age said. He would like to have a photo of the titan or men who d the railway where it was ir .. If if was a Parliamentary job I i so had been in the w.ong (hive. run lit institution alto .ether. h < Premier euipliat.ieall, domed that his Governm-oit wanted to soi lise the farmers. A man working a farm for himsell would work it mill h better than if he were working it for wages. All they wanted' was the fullest economic production. When the individual did the job there was no question of the State stepping in. Anyone who thought the New Zealand farmer was not doing his job to-dav “had a. lot of thinking to do. The New Zealand farmer was second to none in the world. Exports from this country, chiefly to Britain, were greater per head of population, than those of any otlv-r country on earth.