PROTEST MADE
THE RIGHT TO SPEND
A protest was made by the executive, of the North Island Motor Union to-day against a clause in the proposed Transport Bill, giving the Minister of Transport the right to spend £150,000 of the Highways Fund in any way or anywhere he thought fit. > The clause was described by Mr. E. A. Batt (Wellington) as savouring of political favour. Mr. F. J. Hill (Wanganui): "He could spend it on a county road?" The secretary (Mr. H. J. Stott) said that the Minister had taken up the view that ho should have control of a certain amount.
Mr. L. A. Edwards (Wellington) said that in view of resolutions favouring an increase in the petrol tax, tlio association should keep its eye on the £150,----OUO. "It's only another way of taking away motorists' funds, which they have been picking at for so long," he said. The association decided to make a protest, .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 10
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156PROTEST MADE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 10
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