NEW MAIN HIGHWAYS
PETROL TAX DISTRIBUTION Press Association. WELLINGTON, Monday. The question of the distribution of the petrol tax, and the declaration of new main highways, as proposed when the tax was introduced, was discussed at the last meeting of the Main Highways Board. Instructions were issued for the district highways councils to be called together to consider and recommend secondary roads for declaration as main highways. The proposal, according to an official announcement, is that approximately 3,000 miles of new main highways will be declared under this heading. In all probability maintenance only will be subsidised on these main highways, as it is not expected that there will be any money available for construction, at any rate in the early stages of the new scheme. In addition. steps are to be taken to declare as main highways continuations of present main highways through boroughs of less than 6,000 inhabitants. When these are declared boroughs they will be entitled to receive subsidies on the same basis, on both construction and maintenance, as now paid to county councils.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 11
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177NEW MAIN HIGHWAYS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 226, 13 December 1927, Page 11
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