GRANTS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND ROAD BOARDS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 335, 6 August 1875, Page 3

GRANTS TO MUNICIPALITIES AND ROAD BOARDS.

{ Under the'provisions of; the Abolition; of Provinces Bill, there-.wiHbe--, come payable to--municipalities and road boards, out- of the consolidated revenue, £1- for ;£1 collected upon general rates; tip, :po - f in the ; £l. These annual; be!-in addition to the amount payable to road boards from the land revenue. For this/year, the Legislature is only asked, to provide 'eight months' "subsidy from the Ist of November next. For eight, mbriths thesetieifiation that Parliament will decide this session, to abolish .the Province?, so thatiprovisidn may be made .forying on all necessary.departments now under the control of' the Provinces. This could be done in ..several- ways. : . The Government might.' have ! 'submitted a detailed es<imate ■ of all theVP-ro-vinciat departments,'but there, are obvious objections to such a course before the Provinces are abolished, or Parliament might ,be : asked :, to permit the present; Provincial Appropriation Acts to.remain in force, ; and give .to. continue the services at the same rates, for such, period as might .elapse between the date of expiry of the several Acts and the 30th JJune ; but looking to all the circumstances of the case the Government r haye]tho.ughtit better to ask for the-vote in its present-shape. —Financial Statement.'-; v ] ■