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J. W. SALMOND.

15. I take it that it reads like this : "To the Board of each road district .... if the Counties Act is not in full force .... When the general rates actually collected by the Road Board in the road district do not exceed a total sum of £500, then a sum equal to 10s. for every £1 of such rates " ?—Yes. 16. Now 1 may explain that this has governed the payment of the subsidy to the road districts for many years? —Irrespective of paragraph 4? 17. Yes?— Well, 1 cannot reason in that way.. It seems to me that paragraph 4 covers the whole. 18. Then you think that, where the Counties Act is suspended and the local government is carried out by Road Boards, if the subsidies paid have exceeded £2,500, such subsidies have not been legally paid—they have been paid in excess?—l think so. John P. Dugdalb, Inspecting Valuer, Valuation Department, examined. (No. 6.) 1. The Chairman.] You understand what you have been asked to supply, Mr. Dugdale?—l have a summary here, which I will leave with you. The Manukau County has about twenty-seven separate Road Boards. In the year 1907-8 the twenty-seven Road Boards received £3,252 15s. 6d. That was under the old Act. The Appropriation Act for 1908-9 enacted that the maximum should be £2,500. If in the year 1908-9 Manukau had been treated as in the previous year they would have received £3,522 16s. Id. 2.,i/r. Fraser.] What did they get? —£2,500. Those are the figures in connection with Manukau for the two years. There was a reference also, I understand, to Ashley County. Ashley County for the year 1907-8 received £2,804 Is. 9d. If they had been in the same position for the year 1908-9 they would have got £2,957 lis. lOd. 3. Mr. Laurenson.] How many Road Boards are there in Ashley? —Eight. In that year, 1908-9, they received the £2,500. 4. The Chairman.] That is your statement?— Yes. I can leave the details showing how the figures are made up. [Document handed in.*] 5. Right lion. Sir J. G. Ward.] Can you tell the Committee what amount the Road Boards in the district of Manukau received for the year prior to 1907-8?— No, 1 have not got the figures here. I could get them from our records. 6. Mr. Massey.] Is not the County of Eden in the same positon as Ashley and Manukau?—Yes, sir. 7. You have not prepared the figures?—No, but I know what the increase would be, assuming you placed it in the same position as it was in the year before last.

*Manukau County.

Part of County: Road Board. Rates collected, I 11)07-8. Subsidy. Reduced to Maximum payable. Advance. Balance, Amount payable to Road Board. Particulars of Payment of Su 'ubsidy to Roi ubsidy to Rt load Boards, 1907d Boards, 190 1 -8. -8. Awhitu (Ifd. U.V. reduced to fd. C.V.) Drury (fd.) East Tamakf (id.) Howick Township (fd.) Hunua (2fd. U.V. reduced to fd. C.V.) Karaka (fd.) Mangare (id.) Manurewa (id.) Maraetai (Id. U.V. less than fd. C.V.) Mauku (id. and Id. reduced to f d.) Maungatawhiri (id.) Mercer (f d.) Oraheke (Id. reduced to f d.) .. Otahuhu (Id. reduced to fd.) . . Pakuranga (Id. reduced to fd.) Papakura (lid. U.V. reduced to fd. C.V.) Paparata (fd.) Paparoa (fd.) Papatoitoi ( T ",,d.) Pokeno (Id. reduced to fd.) Pollock Settlement (Id. reduced to fd.) Pukekohe East (Id. reduced to fd.) Pukekohe West (fd.) Turanga (fd.) Wairoa (ljd. reduced to fd.) Waipipi (f d.) Waiuku (|d. reduced to fd.) £ s. d. 155 5 2 £ a. d. 76 12 7 £ s. d. 76 12 7 l. £ s. d. 7 £ 8. d. £ s. 55 2 £ s. d. 55 2 6 £ s. d. 21 10 1 225 7 3 348 18 7 77 11 4 130 1 6 112 13 7 174 9 3 38 15 8 65 0 9 112 13 7 174 9 3 38 15 8 65 0 9 7 i 67 10 130 10 28 10 67 10 0 130 10 0 28 10 0 45 3 7 43 19 3 10 5 8 65 0 9 240 14 7 670 13 11 114 5 9 55 10 11 120 7 3 250 0 0 57 2 10 27 15 5 120 7 3 250 0 0 57 2 10 27 15 5 3 ) ) 43 2 20 5 43 2 6 20 5 0 120 7 3 250 0 0 14 0 4 7 10 5 247 14 9 76 13 6 57 16 0 186 10 3 471 15 4 258 15 10 209 2 10 123 17 4 38 6 9 28 18 0 93 5 1 235 17 8 129 7 11 104 11 5 123 17 4 38 6 9 28 18 0 93 5 1 235 17 8 129 7 11 104 11 5 1 ) ) L 95 12 82 10 123 17 4 38 6 9 28 18 0 93 5 1 235 17 8 33 15 5 22 1 5 95 12 6 82 10 0 179 4 10 116 16 11 . 185 11 2 135 4 3 52 14 9 89 12 5 58 8 5 92 15 7 67 12 1 26 7 4 89 12 5 58 8 5 92 15 7 67 12 1 26 7 4 r 43 2 48 7 43 2 6 89 12 5 15 5 11 92 15 7 19 4 7 26 7 4 48 7 6 502 0 1 535 11 6 : 120 3 1 420 5 10 611 2 5 441 7 6 250 0 0 250 0 0 60 1 6 210 2 11 250 0 0 220 13 9 250 0 0 250 0 0 60 1 6 210 2 11 250 0 0 220 13 9 i i i 45 0 i 157 10 < 187 10 ( 45 0 0 157 10 0 187 10 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 15 1 6 52 12 11 62 10 0 220 13 9 6,826 19 10 3,252 15 6 1,004 12 6 2,248 3 0