SPENDING THE SURPLUS
PETROL-TAX FUNDS CONSTRUCTING URGENT ROADS Fress Association CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. Describing it as “found” money, Mr. W. R. Carey suggested at last evening’s meeting of the council of the Automobile Association that receipts from the petrol tax in excess of the estimated amount should be expended on urgent road works without requiring local bodies to provide subsidies. Mr. Carey said that the revenue for the first 11 months of 1928 had exceeded £813,000, whereas the estimated yield for the whole year was £720,000. It was decided to forward the remit to the Motor Union, and to discuss the question with the Minister of Public Works. Later in the meeting the chairman, Mr. F. W. Freeman, said that in highway matters the South Island was a decade behind the North Island. Last year £587,000 was spent in the Nortli Island and only £125.000 in the South.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 9
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