HIGHWAYS FINANCE
DEPUTATION TO AIINISTER
(By Telegraph— Pqr Press Association.) i"
WELLINGTON, Sept. 3
With reard to the protest meeting of the Canterbury Alotorists over Highway finance, the Hon E. A. Ransom said in an interview, that so many incorrect assumption^'wqre placed before those present that he felt obliged to correct Several of the speakers. It was impossible to allow to go unchallenged such an inaccurate statement as that made by Air Flesher to the effect that the South Island had hitherto suffered under the administration of the Bqard. The Alinister quoted figures to show that both for maintenance and construction the rate of subsidy had been higher in the South Island than in the north. The Alinister dealt also with the remarks of ether speakers' with a view to putting the true position as regards Zhat were termed curtailments, but hat were merely adjustments, where the Boa('d was asked for larger sums than it could provide. Tlie Board had had to cut down 'North Island requests, totalling millions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1929, Page 5
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