More Money For Roads In Counties And Towns
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, November 18. State highway spending this year will be increased by £280,000, aid to counties by £113,210 and aid to municipalities by £150,000.
These are the major effects of a half-yearly review of the 1960 roading programme, completed bv the National Roads Board today.
From a budgeted gross £24,305,000, board members now expect a balance at the end of the year of £730,890.
Certain spending, chiefly on land purchase, was impossible to prevent, the Director of Reading (Mr P. L. Laing) told the board. District roads councils seemed, unfortunately, to have regarded board revenues as inexhaustible: additional requests had totalled £2,071,749. ’ The scale of requests, Mr Laing said, made very doubtful the value of having the halfyearly review. Districts had, unfortunately,
taken it as another opportunity to try to extract further large sums from the board. Some requests had been ridiculous, he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29366, 19 November 1960, Page 12
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