REFUSAL OF SUBSIDY
‘•Difficult To Understand”
It is difficult to understand the attitude of the National ■Roads Board in declining the £lm subsidy from the Consolidated Fund, savs an article in the latest issue of “Better Roads,” the journal of the New Zealand Road Feeration.
In almost- every district there a r e considerable roadIne works which are urgently needed hut are delayed because of lack of funds, the article says. “The delaying of such works until some later date when they will cost more to complete appears hard to justify. "Most of the local authorities have urgent roadine
works which could be put in hand forthwith if the board would make this finance available.”
Legally the subsidy belongs to the National Roads Board under the National Roads Board Amendment Act, 1955 the article says. Before this legislation was enacted the Government conferred with the road transport industry when an agreement was reached on the amount of the subsidy from the Consolidated Fund. If there is to be any alteration in the present arrangements the industry should be consulted by the Government, the article says.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 11
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