THE HIGHWAYS FUND
WELLINGTON, August 28. An extension of the legislation which enabled the Consolidated Fund to raid the Highways Fund was opposed by Mr A. E. Ansell (Chalmers) in the House of Representatives to-day. “It is to the primary producer we look for national restoration,” he said, w and under this system of relieving the Consolidated Fund he is not able to get the assistance he should from the Highways Fund. The primary producers should receive every assistance possible and take precedence over the general taxpayers. They should receive extra assistance at a time like this instead of the general taxpayers being relieved. That is the attitude I have consistently maintained, and I take up that attitude again to-day.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 13
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120THE HIGHWAYS FUND Otago Witness, Issue 4042, 1 September 1931, Page 13
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