MAIN HIGHWAYS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4678, 24 March 1924, Page 2

MAIN HIGHWAYS.

DECLARATION OF HOADS. QUESTION OF MAINTENANCE. An interesting statement regarding the declaration of roads as main highways is made by the Main Highway Board, which has completed its sittings in Wellington. “The board has decided on the roads in the whole Dominion to be declared main highways,” it is announced. ‘‘Prior to such declaration, however, it was resolved to communicate. through the district highways councils, with the different countv councils, asking that they continue the maintenance of these roads, on behalf of the board, pending deflnite arrangements between the board and the county councils fox 1 the delegation of the powers of the board in respect of such roads. “This course is necessary to secure the continuance of the maintenance of roads, for, under the operation of the declaration of a road as a main highway, it (the maintenance) passes out of the hands of the county council into those of the board. “The board’s general policy is to delegate its powers on a main highway to the local body, subject to the standard, of maintenance and works being approved by the Main Highways Board, but there are statutory diffi ■ culties against that being done at the present moment. “The local bodies have been asked for immediate replies, to enable the declaration of the roads as main highways to be made as early as possible.”