WELLINGTON HIGHWAYS.
COST OF MAINTENANCE. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY FACED. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Tho finances of the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Board are seriously threatened, for the motorists, as represented by the Automobile Club, have registered a further protest against the proposed 10s increase in the annual fee, making it 40s, and the Main Highways Board, >in a letter to tho city engineer, has dropped a bombshell by stating that it can find no money for the board bofore March 31.
The letter from the district engineer of the Main Highways Board, Mr. R. H, P. Konayne, reads:—"The Main Highways Board will be unable to find any money before March 31 for any additional bituminous concrete paving carried out under the Wellington City and suburban highways scheme, beyond that up to the end of the last paving season. There is also a doubt that the board might be unable this financial year to meet its share of tho cost of the paying already earned out.
"The members of the Automobile Association will quite understand," said Mr. G. H. Troup, to-day, "that in view of this intimation, if they decline to assist the board as proposed, the board will simply .have to close down operations."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 10
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