MAIN HIGHWAYS BOARD
ALLOCATION OF FUNDS (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. In reply to the South Island Motor Union criticism of the allocation of funds, Mr Furkert, Chairman of the Main Highways Board, to show that there had been no cutting down in the South, points out that last year the expenditure was £240,000. The allocation this year was £386,000, an increase of over 60 per cent. •As portion of the construction fund consists of borrowed money, which must be raised for the board by the Minister, the latter is the final arbiter deciding how such money shall be raised. With regard to not taking over a greater mileage of secondary raids, the board is already carrying sponsibility for 10,000 miles. Furtherj' in view of- the proposal for creating separate boards for'each island a single board does not feel disposed to enter upon anything revolutionary, such as taking over another 2,000 miles of secondary roads, oven if it had tho money.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 15 July 1929, Page 5
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