PUSHING ON RAILWAY WORK.
GOVERNMENT TAKING ACTIVE MEASURES.
PUBLIC WORKS TO EMPLOY MORE MEN. (Special to the "Star.”) WELLINGTON, December 20. One of the big policy points o£ the Ward Government is already going into operation. The Prime Minister announced to-day that the Public Works Department had been instructed to arrange for additional numbers of men to be put on the railways. He had previously announced, as part of the general policy of the Government, arrangements to push on with the construction of the Taranaki-Auckland railway, the Gisborne-Napier railway, the Inangahua Westport railway and the Midland railway to Nelson. The officers of the Department had been advised to put matters in motion to get ready for going right on with these works. Definite instructions had also been given that surveyors were to be put on without delay to put in hand the surveying of the South Island trunk railwav, and it was to be done as' expeditiously as possible. In emphasising the Tact that the
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18642, 20 December 1928, Page 1
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