NORTH AND SOUTH
THE ROADING PROBLEMS. J AN OTAGO DEPUTATION. j (By Telegraph.—Press WELdOIXGTON, this day. Addressing a deputation of members of Parliament from Otago district ;this morning the. Minister of Public Works said it was a question whether the Main Highways Board should definitely decide upon its > programme in Tegard to the roading of one portion of the Dominion without regard for what was to bo done in other parts. He had suggested to the chairman of the board that it would he far .better to have the North and South Islands' proposals before them at the same time, so as to make an even start. It was all very well to say "first come, first served." In the North Island the board was mainly concerned with lateral roads to feed the railways; in the South Island that was not so to the same extent, except in Marlborough and on the West Coast. In Canterbury there was provision for a road which would run practically alongside the railway line. Here- they were faced with the anomaly that motors used a track for which they did not pay, while the railways had to maintain their own tracks. He hoped the Motor Vehicles Bill, to be introduced to Parliament, would do away with that anomaly.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 167, 16 July 1924, Page 7
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214NORTH AND SOUTH Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 167, 16 July 1924, Page 7
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