No Bigger Grants: Ministry's Decision
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THE Ministry of Transport has now intimated to the agricultural counties of England and Wales that no additional grants beyond the usual scale can be made for carrying out road improvements in those counties.
As reported in The Commercial Motor, the county councils concerned some time ago held a conference in London, and, in consequence, represented to the Ministry their claim for specially large grants, because of the low rate yield and abnormal road mileage. The Ministry declined to make extra grants.
It was then intimated by some of the constituent counties of the conference that they would abandon their five-year programmes unless special grants were made for rural counties.
The Ministry's latest reply emphasizes that the five-year programme is "the largest thing of the kind ever attempted," and, in view of its huge commitments, "the Government had come to the conclusion that it could not make any special modification."
1VIerioneth County. Council, one of the rural authorities, has for some time placed the five-year scheme in abeyance, but, in light of the Ministry's letter, will reconsider its decision.