THE PROBLEM TO BE FACED.
The board concludes that its review appears to support the following conclusions: (1) That highway development in New Zealand is merely keeping pace with the development of motor transportation; (2) that the rate of expenditure on highway activities has just reached a figure which is remarkably close to the rates of expenditure in other new countries where the conditions of national development and the development of motor transportation are somewhat similar to those in New Zealand.
"The Main Highways Board does not desire undue exaltation of the importance of highways, or that highway development shall be at the expense of other necessary activities," says the report, "but the problem-to be faced is that, so long as transportation over the highways "is necessary, expense is inevitable whether the roads are good or bad. Probably the expense 'is greater if the roads are bad, through increased operating-costs, which tax the public just as certainly as the ordinary fiscal methods."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 119, 15 November 1929, Page 12
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