HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE.
POSITION OF COUNTY COUNCILS.
In answer to a suggestion by Sir George Hunter- (Waipawa) that legislation should be introduced to provide for an equitable distribution of the cost of maintaining the main highways, the Minister of Public Works (Hon. K. S. Williams) stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that as the rate of subsidy payable under the Highways -Act involved the Highways Board in expenditure greater than its receipts from taxation of motor vehicles, it would appear that the county councils were obtaining all the assistance they could reasonably expect.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3674, 4 August 1927, Page 2
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93HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3674, 4 August 1927, Page 2
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