LATE TELEGRAM.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1710, 11 August 1875, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAM.

CBRISTCHUECH.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day.

Effect of Abolition

The Lyttelton Times this morning publishes a table showing the effect the Abolition Bill will have on the finances of the Canterbury Road Boards. The aggregate result shown is that while the thirty-seven existing Road Boards during the past year received from ordinary Provincial grants and special Provincial grants, and General Government grants, the sum of £127,780, they would only receive under the Abolition Bill £5 515 from license fees, dog tax, etc., and £25,401 from the pound for pound endowment if the same rates were struck as last year, making a total of £30,916, but if a shilling rate were levied in every district, then the road boasds would receive £50,505 from the pound for pound endowments, raising the total to £56,020. The ta.ble when dissected shows that four road boards in the vicinity of Christchnrch will gain slightly from the Abolition Bill, but all the others will be large losers. The Waimate Road Board is the most extreme proof of the latter. Last year this Board received £35,784 from the Provincial and Colonial grants and struck no rate. Under this Abolition Bill the board would only receive £200 from licenes fees and if a shilling rate were struck only £6,682 from the pound for pound endowment. Thirty of the Road Boards had such liberal grants last year that they did not find it neceessary to strike a a rate at all and some of them have never struck a rate since they were established.