THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1880.
Mb Sutton, the other evening in the House of Representatives proposed that the various County Councils throughout the Colony should have the control of the Highway Boards intended to superintend the formation of roads in country districts If this proposal were carried we should bo in a worse position than we are at present, as instead of being governed by two bodies we should - have three. This motion is an insulting one to the Highway Boards inasmuch as it imparts impotency to them. Sappose that the Thames County Council were to undertake the management of the Road Boards what would be the result ? The said council would have the dividing of money to Road Boards and the members would no doubt be sure to take care of No. 1. £10,000 is to be di. ided for example—the council will appropriate for their own use 10 per cent, or £1,000 (perhaps more), and the remaining £9,000 will be handed over to the Road Boards who will knock a further sum of 5 per cent, or £500 for expenses of local government. So that by the time the money is utilised, £1500 will br'spent in expenses of administration. This example is, if anything, under than over the mark. It appears strange to us that the Eoad Boards should not be considered capable of making their own highways, as being on the spot they should be best able to judge of their own requirements. Shouldsuch a motion become law, fully 15 per cent will go in expenses of local Government, and by countenancing such a proposal Ministers will be perpetuating "this department and that department " and will increase the burdens of the colonists for the only possible purpose of creating an extra dose of red tape, of which, judging from the financial position of the colony, we have already experienced ad rauseam.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3582, 19 June 1880, Page 2
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323THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1880. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3582, 19 June 1880, Page 2
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