GRANTS TO LOCAL BODIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 221, 16 March 1912, Page 5

GRANTS TO LOCAL BODIES.

ARE THE PEOPLE SUFFICIENTLY , SELF-RELIANT. ;f| By Telegraph—Press Association. Christcliurch, Last Night.' : 1; Mr. G. W. Enssell, M.P., speaking at;,! the function of the turning of the first v sod of Pages' road, leafing to New',' Brighton, for the widening of -which the State made a grant of £250, said it waa'&j a question as to how far the Stats ?. should 'be called upanio assist the local bodies without such bodies being called/# Upon to do something themselves. Lootf-pm ing through last year's statement hft l V? found over 3000 roads assisted by Goveminent grant, and he assumed! that not one copper was found by the people permed. The time would come when liament would require, to exercise, a much 'ft* closer grip upon finance than was dono.''i2 during the past 25 or 30 years. The>M question must be raised whether, when' : & Parliament voted money, there should!' not be sonfe responsibility on thbs»-'i' J benefiting to pay the money There were practically no public' workftft in Canterbury, where the roads and!*." bridges had been completed many 3gp> yet the people of Canterbury' were,® being taxed for the opening up of th® North Island and other parts of thd'&g Dominion where settlement had ntit on so rapidly, and had-to assist in ing the interest and sinking fund on.rf expenditure from which they received" no benefit. .' *9