More than a billion dollars of the Government’s sometimes controversial Provincial Growth Fund has been allocated, but only a small fraction has gone towards projects specific to Otago and Southland. That is the message to southerners from the man behind the $3billion Provincial Growth Fund. Officials were now examining the study but any announcement was still at least a couple of months away, Mr Jones said. Photo: Gerard O'BrienEconomic Development Minister David Parker, in particular, wanted to see money from the growth fund invested in engineering projects in the South, Mr Jones said. Outside of Dunedin, there were some exciting projects which were still being refined but Mr Jones was adamant Otago's more rural areas would not miss out.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 24, 2019 16:41 UTC