NO BACK GRANTS
PAST HIGHWAY WORKS GOVERNMENT CANNOT PAY Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, To-day. An announcement apparently bearing on numerous requests in New Zealand for retrospective Main Highways’ payments was made to the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, at Inglewood this morning. Sir Joseph Ward said it was impossible for the Government to make any retrospective payments oh these roads. That question had been put to him at New Plymouth, but no Government could look back and pay for what it could escape. From now on the Government would have to contribute largely in other ways, and, while he would like to turn the clock back, it was not possible for the Government to make payments of that nature. It could not make retrospective payments to local bodies for work undertaken in the past, but could help in the future in building roads, bridges and other works of development.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290507.2.120
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 11
Word Count
149NO BACK GRANTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 656, 7 May 1929, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in