IMPROVING MAIN ROADS.
POSITION REGARDING FUNDS.
[by telkghaph.—own coruesi'okdf.nt. ] WELLINGTON, Thursday.
'jt'he chairman of the National Highways Bofird, Mr. F. W. Furkert, questioned regaj'ding a suggestion made at the Canterbujy Roads Conference that £350,000 should be transferred from the highways revenue fund to the construction fund as there is probably a South Island credit' in i'hat fund, statfd that this was entirely wrong. The sum is being transferred from general reserve to the construction fund temporarily, and will be allocated between both islands. When it is returned to the reserve it will be replaced in exactly the same proportions a.u the credit to the respective islands. As for a suggestion made at the same conference that the Highways Board , has no policy, Mr. Furkert said the wholo intension of the Act was that the initiative should como from county councils, who aro primarily responsible for expending the money and for future upkeep, although the Highways Board had deviated i'rom the original policy to the extent of considerably increasing its proportion of maintenance expenditure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 12
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173IMPROVING MAIN ROADS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19677, 1 July 1927, Page 12
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