PUBLIC WORKS
NINE MILLIONS PROVIDED IN BUDGET INTENDED EXPENDITURE ON MACHINERY. PLANS FOR POST-WAR ACTIVITY. » (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 5. An expenditure of £9,000,000 will prpbably be provided for public works in the Budget for the financial year ending March 31 next. Much of the expenditure, the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, said in an interview, would be on machines which the Government was unable to have delivered last year and which were necessary to bring several big construction schemes into operation. The carrying out of many schemes was impossible in war time with a shortage of material and a reduction of 10,000 in the number of men on public works in the last year. The Minister said one scheme which would have to be held over was the permanent drainage of Lake Ellesmere. “After the war and when, the men come back we may need many works to give them productive employment,” said Mr Armstrong. “We have the plans ready. The Government has asked the department to prepare a programme of works and that has been done. The problem of employment will be dealt with as soon as it crops up. Included in the programme are works which we would like to be carrying out now but which we find impossible to undertake while the war is on.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 4
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