PROGRESSIVE ROADING POLICY
MASTERTON COUNTY SCHEME. £125,000 LOAN PROPOSAL. The Mas ter Lon County Council is enthusiastically taking up the main highways proposal and progressive ronding policy advocated by its chairman, Councillor W. J. Armstrong. At Tuesday's meeting of the finance committee of that body, he quoted the sect ion of the Main Highways Act where provision is made for local bodies to raise loan money to execute their road schemes, and he proposed to place before the ratepayers a scheme whereby the couueil could raise a. loan of £125,000 which would be used in forming bitumen roads on tho main highways of the county, and improved surfaces in the backblocks. The position at present, ho said, was that the county was continuously maintaining roads and getting no further than a metal surface. The scheme would take ten years to complete, and though it might call for slightly increased rates for a time, money would he saved by the convenience of better roads. The proposal was later placed before the full council and unanimously endorsed. Steps are now to be taken to place the matter before the ratepayers for their approval. It is understood that this is the first local body in New Zealand to Take advantage of the Act in this direction.—Dominion
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 9
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