SEPARATE CONTROL OF MAIN HIGHWAYS
MOTORISTS’ NEEDS NORTH AND SOUTH ISLANDS (7'HE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter .} WELLINGTON, Thursday. Separate control of the funds tor the highways of the North and Soutt Islands respectively is advocated W Mr. G. W. Forbes, Leader of th< National Party, who declared In tb* House of Representatives to-night thi* this was the wish of the motorist* throughout New 2;ealand. Motorists, he said, had been scepti' cal when the main highways schein* had been instituted, but the Prin#| Minister had said “give it a trial. Now they had tried it, and it ba* produced a result no better than th«f had anticipated. The road problem*: in the South Island were entirely dif'j ferent from those in the North, motorists would feel far happier if tb» control were equitably divided, cording to the respective requirero**® of the islands, in accordance with tW number of vehicles in each island.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 8
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