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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 26, 16 January 1878, Page 3

O TO THE EDITOR. SiH,--rln your issue of the -12th instl I notice that "V.M." calls attention to V The Financial Arrangement Act, 1876, Amendment Act, 187?," wherein he quotes part of a clause whicli is rather apt to mislead the public into the belief that were there; no Koad Board we would receive m the County Council double the subsidy* Such is not the case to my- reading of the Act— iF anything, rather ; the reverse* With your permission I will quote the whole of .the clause referred.! to and the pjiblic can judge for themselves :— "To e^ch County Council a sitrn i equal to one/pound for every pound of general pates so reCdived by such Council., oi*.cqual to one

pound- for every pound on the, total. er\ the sums so received by all the Road Boards.oi- parts of Road Boards within "the* County^ whichever of such two sums is .the greater. Provided that m any Copnly where no Road Boards .exist there'shall be paid to the Council two pounds- droiveyery one pound of general rates so received by such Council.^. To each Road Board and River Roarß a sum.; equal to one pound for every pound of ., general rates so received by each such Board. 3. To each Borough Council a sum equal to one pound for every pound of general rates so received by each Council. But for the purpose of this, section (of the Act) no sum shall be' deemed to be received by any such Cow. oil or Board m excess of the sum receivable on a rate of one shilling m the pound of the annual value of rateable property .^l am, &c, ■■■ ■ , Fact.