DWINDLING AWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 9

DWINDLING AWAY.

THE HIGHWAY'S NEST EGG.

WON'T LAST THREE YEARS.

EXCESSIVE PAYMENTS IN

SOUTH ISLAND.

AW IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.* CHRISTCHURCH, this day. With a view to removing doubts that have existed in regard to the operations of the Main Highways Act, and to evolving a policy for the future that will be satisfactory to parties interested, an important conference between the Main Highways Board and representatives of South Island county councils and motoring organisations was held in the Canterbury Automobile Association's rooms this morning. Mr. Furkert (Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, and chairman of the Main Highways Board) presided over a large attendance. Mr. B. Falck (president of the Canterbury Automobile Association) welcomed the delegates, and expressed a hope that the conference would go smoothly and that satisfactory results would be obtained. Mr. Furkert said that the board's nest egg was dwindling away. It was estimated that it would disappear inside three years. The ratio of payment in the South Island was two to one, as against one and a-half to one in the North. He did not agree that roads in the South Island had not been improved since the operation of the Act. It was no good anyone making exaggerated statements.