HIGHWAYS FINANCE
CANTERBURY MOTORISTS’ PROTEST. MINISTER CORRECTS SPEAKERS [Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 3. In regard to the protest meeting of Canterbury motorists over highway finance, ihe Hon. E. A. Ransom said in an interview that so many incorrect assumptions were placed before those present that he felt obliged to correct several of the speakers. It was impossible to allow.to go unchallenged such an inaccurate statement at that made by Mr Flesher to the effect that the South Island had hitherto suffered under the administration of the board. The Minister quoted figures to show that both for maintenance and construction the rate of subsidy had been higher in tho South Island than in the .Sorth. The Minister dealt also with the remarks of other speakers, with a view to putting the true position as regards what were termed curtailments but were merely adjustments. Where the board was asked for larger sums than it could provide, the board had had to cut down North Island requests totalling millions of pounds.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 3 September 1929, Page 5
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