MOTORISTS TO PAY
UNFORMED SOUNDS ROAD . DECLARED HIGHWAY. PROTEST BY AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION. ,;^S?hsiCißP “SAME OLD STORY.” fPress Association^ CHRISTCHURCH, July 18; Members of the general council of the Automobile Association to-night protested -strongly against the Main Highways Hoard being compel led to take over the unformed scenic road in Eglington Valley to reach Milford Sound. .■ ■ 1 • • “I think this/is one of tlie most serious tilings motorists have evCilia d to face,” said the chairman, Air AY. R. Carey. “This road is a national :ohe', arid riot. a...motorists’ one,- yet it lias been put on -to the Highways Board by thc Authority whieli says ‘you have got to take it.’ ” . .’ “It is' the isHrnlo old story,” «aM Hr F. W. Freeman. “The Government is going to sec that the -motorist .pays.’’
“Efforts liad been made,” said Air Carey, “to put the cost of past construction on to the board, but they had been: resisted. The board was willing to take over 47 miles already formed, but because of the action of ‘this authority’ the unformed portion had been declared a. highway.” It was agreed that .motorists ought to protest strongly, and that tlie first stop should be to have the matter discev red by tlie North and South Island Motor'Union-s.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12609, 19 July 1935, Page 5
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