LOANS FOR ROADS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 8 August 1923, Page 6

LOANS FOR ROADS

Mr. A. H. Long (Mangonui) moved that proven be made by! the Govern on road work; He stated, wini Pi y a <'uestlon. what was on loans for road work. Several members considered that the Government would not authorise loans if they were compeUed to pay pound f or pound^ubS dies. flic moV e r replied that such a full subsidy might: not be asked for. The chairman said the county which was moving would defeat its own claims b| putting every county on the same footing, ihe remit was withdrawn. Jhe conference affirmed the principle of auctioneers' fees going to hospital boards, instead of to local bodies P A remit, with the object of having years, was turned down ■ Rangitikei brought forward a remit suggestmg the setting up of a «2 ice, by the executive, to scrutinisp all proposed legislation and reguXn" Mr. B. P. Lethbridge (Marton) said a arge amount of the legislation which chfrf 6n Pa?S6d -had been ««mewhat crude It was pointed out that the real t'l Z *£ th^ >.he legislation was before the House .before anyone outside knew anything about it. Occasionally there had been confidential copies of proposed legislation made available but as a general Tule the executive could not secure any Bills until'they were read in the House. The matter was left to the executive.

In connection with county boundaries, Wairaain (Mr. R. W. Hawke) forwarded a remit that alterations should not be made except at definite periods of five years, and that where the boundaries were altered they should extend along some road, watercourse, or other natural boundary. The mover quoted a case where a farm property had been cut in two, and the comity was left to value and administer to the back portion of the farm. The remit was eventually withdrawn and replaced by a motion asking the Government to remove the disabilities under which local bodies at present suffer. The principle of making a road a boundary was objected to on the ground thai it made dual control of the road neceueaiy, and this was undesirable.