“A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.”
PROPOSED R AMP OVER CROSSING
WELLINGTON, July 7.
If the Mayor and local bodies are successful in getting this Bill through giving the Highways Board authority to construct ramps, it will he n precedent which can be carried out- throughout the Dominion and an immense amount of the Highways Board’s funds ban. be. used in the construction of ramps all over New Zealand. It is a dangerous precedent to embark upon.” The Wellington Automobile Club, tonight decided to confer with the Lower Hutt Borough Council and the Makara and Hutt County Councils with a view to giving evidence against the Bill in which it is proposed to give authority for the construction of a ramp over the Petone crossing, and the above remarks were made, by the chairman (Mr A. E. Butt) in outlining the
position. The club’s opinion is that visibility at the crossing has been so improved as to render a ramp an unnecessary expense.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1930, Page 5
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