Separate Highways Board for South
CABINET’S DECISION UNITED POLICY KEPT Press Association WELLINGTON, Monday. | That a separate Main Highways Board be formed for the South Island was decided by Cabinet to-day, the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, pointing out, when interviewed, that the move was in conformity with the Government policy, as announced before the General Election. When Parliament meets it will be i asked to give authority for the establ lishment of a second board without |in any way interfering With the | fiinanee of the North Island Board. I The Prime Minister further pointed | out that already allocations are sep- ! arate.
I Sir Joseph considered that the al- ! teration would make for efficiency, but iat the same time he had the very | highest opinion of the work which had j already been done under the Act. It I was necessary to cope with the re- ! markablo development of motor traffic, \ and completely independent adminisj tration and control were being brought ; about to epable the administration to ! keep pace with the changes.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290312.2.186
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 16
Word Count
172Separate Highways Board for South Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 16
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in