HIGHWAYS EXPENDITURE
£10,500,000 SINCE 1924 (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Mr. C. J. Talbot, the counties’ representative on the Main Highways Board, speaking at the Otago Motor Club meeting, said that since the board was formed in 1924, the amount spent on maintenance and construction totalled 810,500.000. The feeling that the South Island was not being fairly treated was dying, motorists now realising that a fair deal was being made between the two islands on a. basis of petrol consumption and the, registration of vehicles.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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86HIGHWAYS EXPENDITURE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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