HIGHWAYS FINANCES
TWO AMENDMENTS MADE TO FINANCE BILL EIGHT PER CENT. TO CITIES THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, Wednesday. According to the promise given in yesterday’s debate on the Finance Bill the Prime Minister, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, altered clauses in the Finance Bill relating to highways finances and amendments were brought down in the House this evening by Governor-Gen-eral’s message. First, there is a reversion to the system of paying eight per cent, of the net revenue from the petrol-tax to cities and boroughs with a population in excess of 6,000, which will be followed after March 3.1, 1931. Then provision is made for the expiration on August 31 of next year of the payments from the Public Works Fund and the subsidies to local bodies and the amounts for the construction and maintenance of roads other than main highways
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 7
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142HIGHWAYS FINANCES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 7
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