WRONG ASSUMPTIONS.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17680, 3 September 1929, Page 5

WRONG ASSUMPTIONS.

BY SOUTH ISLAND SPEAKERS. CORRECTED BY MINISTER. HIGHWAY BOARD’S ACTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON,- Sept. 3. With regard to the protest made at a meeting of the Canterbury motor-, ists over the highway finance, the Hon. E. A. Ransom said in an interview that so many incorrect assumptions were placed before those present that he felt obliged to correct several of \he speakers. <

It was impossible to allow to go unchallenged such an inaccurate statement as that made by Mr Flesher to the effect that the South Island had hitherto suffered under the adminis- v ti*ation of the Board. The Minister quoted figures to show that both for maintenance and construction the rate of subsidy had been higher in the South Island than the North. The Minister dealt also with the remarks of other speakers with a view of putting the true position as regards what were termed curtailments, but that were merely adjustments, where the Board was asked for larger . sums than it could provide. The Board had had t.o cut down' North Island requests totalling millions of pounds.