County Councils v. Road Boards
The Waitara Press writing on the subject of County Councils versus Road Boards, says ;— At present our main roads are a credit to the district, and in our opinion speak volumes as to the good management of thie County Council ; but we very much fear, where the control of our main roads is distributed between the different Road Boards, the result would aot be a satisfactory one, but * that the mam roads would be allowed to drift back to their eld condition, whilst the money, that should have been expended in their maintenance will ..be taken and spent elsewhere locally. It ia now about thirty years since Road Boards came into existence, and thej have been a rate collecting body during that period ; and what have they to show for the moneys expended daring that dine? We venture to assert that the whole of the Road Hoards combined have not during that period properly made rand metalled ten miles of road; on the other hand, the County Council has been in existence f<>r about seven years, and daring that time there has been njade, metalled, and bridges erected j>n — over sixty miles of road.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 78, 4 December 1883, Page 3
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