Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

INTRODUCTION.
It was stated in the Introduction to the volume entitled “ National Public Works ”
(document C.482.M.209.1934.VIII) that the replies from Governments to the Circular
Tetter of March 7th, 1934, concerning national public works, which reached the Secretariat
after the publication of that volume, would appear in an addendum. The present
volume contains these replies, which have been received from the Governments of
the Union of South Africa, Australia, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France,
Hungary, India, Irish Free State, Poland, the United States of America, Sweden.
Of the replies given in this second series, those from the Union of South Africa,
Australia, Denmark, France and the United States of America contain information
additional to that already supplied and published in the first volume.
As in the first volume, the replies from the Governments mentioned are, in general,
reproduced in full; but certain details or particulars of a purely local character have been
omitted where the reply was too long to permit of its publication in toto. The printed
documents which accompanied some of the replies have, in general, not been reproduced;
but extracts have been made from them where the subject, matter appeared to come more
specifically within the scope of the enquiry.
An index precedes the replies from the Governments; it enumerates, under the
heading of each category of work mentioned in the annex to the Circular Tetter, the
countries whose replies deal directly with the work falling into these categories. The
index includes only the documentation reproduced in the present volume. A list of the
documents annexed to the replies which have not been published or of which only extracts
have been reproduced will be found at the end of this volume. These documents are
kept in the archives of the Secretariat and their contents can be supplied to Governments
upon request.
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For the convenience of the reader, the Circular Tetter of March 7th, 1934, in which
the Secretary-General of the Teague of Nations asked the Governments for information
concerning national public works in their countries is reproduced below.
I. A brief description of the main public works :
(a) Undertaken since the beginning of the year 1929 and now completed;
(b) Now in course of execution;
(c) The execution of which is at present in contemplation or schemes for
which are in preparation.
The term “ public works ” is intended to include the various categories of work
mentioned in the list annexed to the present circular, and the public works described
should, as far as possible, be classified according to the categories shown in that list.