WHO GETS THE BENEFIT OF THE ROADS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LII, Issue 4580, 17 March 1931, Page 4

WHO GETS THE BENEFIT OF THE ROADS.

‘‘.Jonas Puzzlcmuteh” writes as follows to the Hokianga Star:— “George Nutcracker had a farm out our way, two hundred acres. He bought it not long ago when the road was six feet wide and four feet deep in summer, and four feet wide and six feel deep winter. Soon after he bought it the motorists began paying money to the Highway Board, and the Highway Board, put a fine metalled' road right past •Nutcracker’s place. Nutcracker bought the place for £lO an acre, but soon after the road was put through he sold it for £2O an acre. I couldn’t see that he had improved it much. Nutcracker says the motorists ought to pay for all the roads —they use them. That seems right. IBut somehow it seems to me that road made Nutcracker’s place worth £3,000 more, for surely it w r as the road put the value on his place. Don’t you think George Nutcracker ought to be made to give that £3,000 to the Highway Board?”