HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 31, 7 February 1928, Page 5

HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES.

NO. 3 DISTRICT'S REVENUE. APPORTIONED BY COURT. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Monday. The revenue from heavy license fees payable this year in No. 3 Heavy Traffic Distiict, was apportioned to-day by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Evidence was given by the town clerk of Hamilton, the clerk of the Cambridge Road Board, and the engineer and clerk ( ,f tno Waipa Coimtv Council, which applied for a special concession on account of tlie abnormally heavy through traffic which passes over that portion of the Main South Road in the Waipa comity, between Xgaruawahia and Hamilton. T>"» mneristrate said that he considered the Waipa County Council's claim for a special allowance on account of extraordinary traffic should be placed before the Highways Board for consideration. The Tamahere and Cambridge Road Board districts had been given generous allowances in the last award, but he considered that if they existed after March 31 next, they, too, should apnlv to the Highways Board. The Court's formal award was that the apportionment should be on the following basis: Boroughs to retain 55 per cent of their collections; counties to retsnn "5 per cent: Huntlv. Leamington and Matamata Town Boards to retain 55 per cent; the residue to form a fund which shall be. divided between the local bodies, including all town boards, in proportion to their respective expenditure on road maintenance; that is to say, the moneys actually expended through the year in road maintenance, including interest and sinking funds li'ion «uch tot's for road reconstruction, but to exclude Government subsidies, Highways Board payments and the canital * expenditure of such special loans; road maintenance to include reconstruction of the road service, whether by concreting, bitumen, sealing or metalling.