COUNTY COUNCILS VERSUS ROAD BOARDS.
iThe Waitara -Preg'sj, writing on the subject of County Councils versus-Road Boards, says? —At present! dfiteimain roads are a credit to the district, and id our opinion speak- volumes as to the good management "of the County. Cbun+ cil ; but: we very much fear, were the control of our .main roads, distributed between- the. different Uoad> Board>, the result would not be a satisfactory one, but that the main roads would be allowed to drift back to thj?ir 'old con-; dition, whilst the money that shoulJ have been expended mL their mainten-i anco will be taken and spent elsewhere locally^: It is now about thirty years since. iiQa^Boai'ds' cawointo existence, and tfiey have bpen a ra-te-cdllectirig body 'during the period j wH *haj; Jjaye they to slvow' for the "moneys expended during that time? We venture to assert that the whole of tho Road J3o«rds <<6mbihed have .hot during that pet'ibcl pro-* ■porly made aud ! Metalled ten miles of road ; on the other hand, tho Cotfntryi Council ha*< be^n m existence for abontj seren ycar^ antf during 1 that 6me there: has been made^-jnetallecl and bridges' erected on — over- sixty miles of road. \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 10, 10 December 1883, Page 2
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