ROADS AND BRIDGES.
OVER £1,000,000 WANTED. It is abated that the Government have received applications from all parts of the colony for grants fir roads and bridges, which, if agreed to, would involve a total expenditure c! over £1 000 000 There seems to be an '"mpressiou abroad that there is going to be an all-round increase in pablio expenditure, and people all over New 1 Zealand are naturally anxious to secure ■ as large a tbare as possible for w rks io their districts, This feeling has 1 doubtless been tnccnroged and intend- ' fied by the action of the House in in- J o-raMng Ministers' salaries the talk about fol owing this up by increasing • tbe payment of members, the frequent ! references ot borrowing. The "money no olj ct" feeling is evidently spreading throughout the oolony, and those « »ho want roads and bridges are apparently anxious to g<t their applies- J ti ms in as tar'y as possible, the rr- 1 ] !U tlv ing that about £1,000.000 wou'd i le r quired to satisfy all damands ieciverf op 'o date. ® ~ ~ 1 *"*' i
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 204, 2 October 1900, Page 4
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182ROADS AND BRIDGES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 204, 2 October 1900, Page 4
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