ROAD MAINTENANCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3763, 27 April 1926, Page 21

ROAD MAINTENANCE.

TAXATION OF MOTOR f VEHICLES. i HAMILTON. April 22. A resolution was proposed at the meetim; of the borough council last night urging that the Government be asked to introduce legislation giving local bodies, which control, make, and maintain streets and roads, power to license motor vehicles, public and private, and to collect a fee sufficiently high to provide 8 per cent, interest on sinking funds for loans for the purpose of making the roads and streets capable of standing the present-day motor traffic, and also for maintenance requirements. * Tho council referred the matter to its ■ General Purposes Committee. r HIGHWAYS BOARD’S RESOLUTION. " f TIMARU. April 22. At a meeting of the Main Highways Board held here to-day, on the proposal of Mr H. B. S. Johnstone, chairman of the Walmate County Council, the following motion was unanimously passed : "That In fairness to county ratepayers and for the » jneflt of road users a much larger proportion of the cost of the upkeep of the roads should be collected from the owners of all motor vehicles, the moneys collected to be allocated to the county councils by way of an additional subsidy on *he rates, such subsidy not to be governed by the £IO,OOO limit applied to the present subsidy, but to bo given on all moneys collected by the county councils by way of general rates.”