PERMANENT ROAD WORK.
LOCAL BODY SUBSIDIES.
[bt telegraph.—special reporter,] WELLINGTON, Friday
Tho setting up of a Royal Commission to adjudicn f ?s upon all claims for subsidies to boroughs for permanent loading works done on roads which have since becomo main highways was suggested in a petition presented to the House of Representatives to-day on behalf of the Otahuhu Borough Council.
The council said that in 1925 and 1926 it formed tho portion of the Great South Road within the borough in a permanent manner, being verbally assured before the work began that the Main Highways Board would grant a subsidy. The work cost £24,500, but repeated applications to the board for a subsidy had met with a refusal. The board explained .that ifc had no statutory power for subsidising the work at tho time it \Cas carried out. It was claimed that the late Avondale Borough Council, which carried out similar works at about the same lime, had been subsidised by the board.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20602, 28 June 1930, Page 15
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