ROAD DISTRICTS
DECLINING liV NUMBE3J.
- A. steady decrease is taking place in' the number-of road districts ■ in-the Dominion .. During the past year, according to the annual report of the Department of-.lnternal- Affairs, all the road ' districts in the Bodiiey and Marlboroueh . .Counties;-together, with the Huhtlv JRood District-in tlie Wnikalo Countv-i thirteen- in - ; all—were merged. This leave only thirty-five road districts j n the Dominion, thirteen of .which are con- '" tamed.in districts where there is at-nre ■ senfc/no other form of local government. ■ Jhe operation of the Main Highways Act lms given rise to. consideration, of me disabih y of the abolition of forth, r , road districts, and the report 3tates'th'ifc it is possible.that the;day i 3 not t ?*' distant when the ' existence of. road ■ boards at all events where there i s B ol.cr form of ocal -ijovcrumeut, will'bo -
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 9
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138ROAD DISTRICTS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 45, 21 August 1924, Page 9
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