SOUTH ISLAND HIGHWAYS.
MONEY NOT APPLIED FOR. (rBXSS ASSOCIATION TZIJSGBAII.) DUNEDIN, April 29,
Mr F. "W. Furkert, chairman of the Highways Board, says that as an indication of how little justification there.is for .South Island complaints regarding the Highways Board not being sufficiently sympathetic to the South Island, in the last highway estimates the South Island was given practically everything asked for, but the Xorth Island, was pruned drastically. The North Island had submitted proposals for £418.000 and the South Island only for £42,000. In addition the Xorth Island had submitted provisional proposals for the coming year of £450,000 and the South Island nil. Tho revenue received from motors in the Xorth Island was well over f>o per cent, above the South Island. If the mileage of the highways were adjusted in proportion to the number of motor vehicles in the respective islands, the South Island would have three hundred "and fifty miles less highway than it has. There were several hundred thousands of pounds available for the South Island locked up because it had not been applied for.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18369, 30 April 1925, Page 13
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