Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1884. DELUSIVE LEGISLATION.
Triß'Wallace County Ctniucilf we ob-' serve, reduced its application under the •"Holids and "Bridges Construction Act," from £45,000 to £5000, and \*ns allotted £744: They laid out about £600 m preliminary expenses. But m addition to this disappointment, they aro placed iv" the awkward fix of having let contracts to the >tnnoWfi of £5000, m expectation of getting lh,at sunJ.anid their present condition is, says the Chairman, "really appalling." The Chairman remarked that "The old 'straight-forward system of giving a subsidy of £1 lo £1 had been abandoned, and the people had been "induced to give, up the old sytem • of : local selfgovernment on condition that a portion ;of. the land lurid wate &> be' given to local works ; but that promise had proved a delusion and a snare of the most diabolical kind. -The whole of County .Councils m this colony had been inisled x and. they had not even' got the expenses incurred m the preliminary preparations for the works.-"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 2
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174Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1884. DELUSIVE LEGISLATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 73, 25 February 1884, Page 2
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