CANTERBURY’S WANTS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160794, 30 October 1920, Page 3

CANTERBURY’S WANTS

DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 29. The Canterbury members of Parliament waited on the Prime Minister and tli© Minister of Works to-day on matters connected with the public works expenditure. Mr Witty explained that the deputation was not so anxious to take exception to 1 lie largo amount proposed to be spent north of Auckland as to urge that those works in Canterbury for which money was being voted should be speeded "up. Mr Massey said the Government were alive to the need for completing the Otira Tunnel, and would supply as much money and energy as was needed to get the work finished. After that it would turn it? attention to other' Canterbury requirements. TJio Hon, Coates asked +he deputation whether it attached greater importance in the matter of speed of com' plot ion to the Lyttelton tunnel or the Puller Gorge railway. The deputation replied in favour of Lyttelton, tunnel and the Hiley scheme generally.