ROAD SUBSIDY TO COUNTIES Evidence To Royal Commission
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 20. Counties got more than a three-for-one subsidy from the National Roads Fund when they worked on main highways, said the secretary of the Municipal Association (Mr C. L. Bishop) when cross-examined before the Royal Commission on Local Authority Finance today by Mr N- A. Morrison (Counties* Association).
Mr Bishop said that county councils hired their own roadmetal plant to themselves at a profitable rate and collected the three-for-one subsidy on the road metal they sold to themselves. “By the time they have finished instead of a three-for-one subsidy. they have a four-for-one or four-for-nothing subsidy,” he said Mr Bishop said that the counties, under section 25 of the National Roads Act. could rearrange their finances to get. indirectly. *he benefit of road subsidies for other works He said he was prepared to give illustrations taken from actual county accounts, and would supply names if necessary.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28541, 21 March 1958, Page 7
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