GOVERNMENT AND COUNTY ROADS.
Speaking at AVaitara last week Sir W. Frascr, Minister for Public Works. said there was a great deal of talk about the Government taking over the maintenance of main roads, and added: Any road once made is a country road, unless the Government proclaim it to be a Government road. In many parts the Government undertook to look after roads which pass through country where no rates were collected or the rates were very small. Suppose the Government did maintain roads, the desire apparently was to save payment of rates, but they must not suppose they would benefit as far as their pockets were concerned. Maintenance would have to be done out of revenue. not out of borrowed money, and that would mean a tax, the greater part of which would have to come off the laud. Moreover, there would be no certainty that the Crown would expend _ the money in the locality in which it was raised, whereas' under local body control ratepayers see the local bodies do their duty, lie urged them to keep the maintenance of roads under -dotal body control. He believed, unless in exceptional cases of very high-rated land and wealthy districts, the Government should help to mainain the roads.
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Otaki Mail, 28 February 1919, Page 4
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