ARTERIAL ROADS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12018, 8 March 1920, Page 6

ARTERIAL ROADS.

Wellington, March 4. The question of improvement to the main arterial roads of New Zealand was discussed to-day by the Conference of Chambers of Commerce. On the motion of J B Waters, it was decided that the Government be requested to put into operation a scheme similar to the Victorian system, or that of the United States, which provided for the construction and maintenance on the basis of 50 percent State payment and 6 per cent time repayment system for the balance, which is apportioned amongst the interested local bodies. Such a scheme would be useful in furnishing employment for unskilled returned soldiers. That the Government be requested to introduce a Bill for the taxation of motors and other power driven vehicles, the revenue derived to he allocated by three commissioners appointed for the purpose by the Government, to local bodies, solely for improvement of arterial and main district roads. The speedy completion of the main road from Auckland ot Wellington was also a subject of a resolution.