HIGHWAYS BOARD
SOUTH ISLAND REQUEST REFUSED [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] ■WELLINGTON, July 22. The Prime Minister expresses the opinion, in reply to Mr De la Porello, that a separate highway board for the South Island is not needed. The Government’s information does not indicate any uniform desire in the South Island lor the constitution of a South Island board, and it is riot the intention of the Government to amend the Highways Act in tho direction indicated during the present session. The Government is having data prepared which will bo very valuable should an amendment to tho Act be deemed necossu *y *
Replying to another question, the Prime Minister stated: “Au amendment of tho Highways Act is at present being drafted, but i fail to see in what way present subsidies aro inequitable, they being more liberal than was the case before tho coming into force of the Highways Act.’’
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Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 3
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150HIGHWAYS BOARD Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 3
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