CANTERBURY PROGRESS LEAGUE.
HIGHWAY BOARD'S - ACCOUNTS. - (Peb United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. The report presented to the Canterbury Progress League says: “There stands in the Highway Board’s accounts a large unexpended credit balance in favour of the Sonth Island. This money belongs to the motorists, yet these some motorists are paying away huge sums in repair bills, wear and tear, and general depredation, which could be saved throngh better roads. Moreover, these piecemeal contracts spasmodically offered cannot be carried out so economically and effidently as could bigger contracts forming part of a well-ordered scheme. Plant and labour are idle during a considerable part of the year. A bigger and better. organ : ised scheW of development wonld give steadier employment to the men and the , machines, and make lower tenders possible.-”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21021, 9 May 1930, Page 12
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