PUBLIC WORKS.
DISCHARGE OF "CO-OPS."
Per Press Association
MANGAWEKA, January 30. Instructions have been received to discharge a hundred co-operative labourers on the Trunk Railway. This is above a fourth of the total number engaged at present between Mangaonoho and Taihape.
THE PREMIER'S EXPLANATION
WELLINGTON, January 30. Speaking at. a social last nigiu, the Pivmier said that as <ast as the money wa.s, voted by Parliament it was expended, and public works would cease until further appropriations we's made. The Press might agitate as it liked, but the Government would not spend a shilling more than was deemed priul"ni; oiyer and above the appropriations "of Parliament. The vote for the Helens"ii<e North Railway was over-spent by £1 54G, that for StratfordKawakawa by £5,568, aud for BlenheimWaipara. by £4.500:
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 January 1902, Page 2
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