$16.3m to Roads Bd this year
C’V.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 1. The ssm grant to the National Roads Board, an-1 jnounced yesterday by the ' Minister of Works and' [Development (Mr Connelly) I had not altogether resulted ifrom a. drop in petrol consumption, said the Assistant Director of Roading (Mr R. 18. Fisher) today. Although there had been a drop in petrol consumption after the price increase to $1 a gallon on May 22, this had not continued into August, ,Mr Fisher said. The need for I the grant was “mixed up with the general question of (the board's finances and the need to offset it through to (March 31.” Mr Connelly said yester-i day that the latest grant i would mean that the board had been allocated $16.3m [by the Government this i financial year. The $ 11.3 m granted in thei Budget had been put into! (special works in Northland! and the West Coast, as well; as general roading work. “The Government recog- | nises that National Roads (Board revenue is largely de-; rived from petrol tax,” he! said.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33963, 2 October 1975, Page 16
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