EXCEEDING ESTIMATES
GOVERNMENT TENDENCY The “continued tendency for the cost of public works, particularly railways, to exceed the original estimates,” was criticised at a meeting of the council ol the, Auckland Chamber of Commerce. It was pointed out that although the Wellington Tawa Elat deviation was originally estimated to cost £950,000, it had already cost £1,345.223 and was not by any means complete, bimilarly, the Wellington new station and yard originally were estimated to cost £1 £75,009, but, although the work was only about half completed, revised csti mates already placed the cost at over £1.309.000.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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96EXCEEDING ESTIMATES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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