ROADS FOR TOURISTS
“NOW IS THE TIME” MR. DOWN IE STEWART’S VIEWS DUNK’D IN, Aug. 3. The best time to stimulate recovery was when recovery was already on the road, said the Hon. W. Downie Stewart, former Minister of Finance, in addressing a meeting of the Otago Expansion League. He said he thought the present was a good rime for the le ■■ to press for expenditure on tourist roads and on whatever was neces sary to encourage tourists to come to v ew Zealand. Reasons which should be taken into c ;. - .s! 2viati»n said Mr. Stewart, were th; importance of the tourist traffic, the fact that there was a large amount of idle money which nrivata enterprise could not profitably use, end the large number of unemployed m< n who woiud be better engaged on -uch work than on ord’nary relief wor <.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 181, 5 August 1935, Page 8
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