HIGHWAYS’ PAYMENTS
GOVERNMENT’S POLICY DEFINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, May 7. An announcement, apparently bearing on numerous requests in New Zealand for retrospective highways payments, was made by the Premier at Inglewood this morning. Sir Joseph Ward said it was impossible for the Government to make any retrospective payments on 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 the Government would have to contribute largely in other ways, and while he would like to turn 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 future in the building of roads, bridges, and other developmental works.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18259, 8 May 1929, Page 6
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138HIGHWAYS’ PAYMENTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18259, 8 May 1929, Page 6
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