AID TO PUBLIC WORKS AND

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10482, 29 October 1901, Page 1

AID TO PUBLIC WORKS AND

LAND SETTLEMENT.

The Hon. Hall-Jones, in moving the second reading of the Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Bill, said it would save time to take a debate .on the Public Work's .Statement on this Bill. ' .', .. Captain Russell considored an alteration was necessary in the^hcle system of Public Works Accbuptei^One was unable to ascertain whatr^nibney had bean spent in any particular. direction, and it was essential that an intelligible balance-sheet should be put before the Hous'i. Though he had- studied the Statement, he had- bccH absolutely unable to discover what moneys had been spent out of loan, and what moneys had been transferred from the Consolidated Fund to the Public Works Account. Nevertheless he' hadx arrived at tho conclusion that the position was very unsatisfactory. During the last three years of the regime of the Railway Commissioners the amount spent was ..£39,250, yet the expenditure by the Government under the same head-, :iri% during, the last three years -amounted^ to J8725j321: -This allowed J;hat there hifd been gross mismanagement" in the past, or that there was gross mismanagement' at the present time. Another point in regard to the Railways was that they-did-not know -what was being charged to capital account and what was being charged to workings expenses. -As to sinking fund for wear- and tear in excess of maintenance, Captain Russell pointed out what had been done by the Manawatu Railway Company in that direction, and said that on the same basis, as the colony's railways had been open for double the period of the Manawatu Company, the colony ought jto have had a sinking fund of .£7,658,000. Sir Joseph Ward suggested that Captain RUssell was almost a monomaniac (if he might use -the term without offence) on the subject of railways. He had said that the Government had expended £725,000 without authorisation, whereas the fact was that there was an authorisation up to £750,000. With reference to the contrast between the period which the Railway Commissioners held office and the period in whjch^ the Government were administering the railways, he pointed out there had been an enormous expansion of traffic since the time of the Commissioners. With such an enormous ezpansion of traffic, it was manifest that the expenditure must have been increased, and that it would increase in future. In reply to Captain Russell's argument as to 1 the 'depreciation, he pointed out that the proper system at the present day was to avoid depreciation. Whon the material deteriorated in the slightest degree, it was put into the workfhopß, and tho cost was charged to revenue. To establish such a fund as Captain Russell had proposed^ would be ruinous to tho country. Sir Joseph Ward denied that repairs and maintenance was a charge to capital, and said • that tliis would not have been allowed. The proposal of Captain Rußsell was that a sinking fund amounting to seven millions should be placed as a burden on the people. Ho did not believe that the people would tolerate it for a 'moment, as it would mean that the rates would require to be fixed at a rate which would be intolerable.

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