NATIONAL ROADING POLICY.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 December 1918, Page 5

NATIONAL ROADING POLICY.

E ___._o_.____ GOVERNMENT ACTION URGED ' i ...._... 1 WELLINGTON, Dec. 9. The time had arrived when the Gov- § lcrnment should inaugurate a nxationalii treading policy, said Mr J. A. Young% V (Waikato), when discussing the Public % Works Estimates in the House. Yeari after year the Government pursued the ' same old piece-meal policy. When ai local district was ‘prepared to expend} its own money on road-grading and; forming and metalling, and the per-3: Dmanent metalling of existing roads/.i the Government should recognise it as? ‘an established principle that in rural‘ districts it should subsidise «all -such works on the basis of ‘.6 for :9. The Minister interjected that he was prepared to grant subsidies for metalling, but not for repair of roads. Continuing, Mr Young said he considered that all repairs should rightly be a charge upon the local districts.