66. Mr. W. A. JENKINSasked the Minister of Transport if he is aware that certain urban and district councils have expressed their inability, having regard to the financial position which exists in agricultural areas and the serious difficulties which now confront ratepayers, to expend any more money on the maintenance or reconstruction of highways in their district than has been raised on an average basis during the past few years, and that they can accept no responsibility whatever for any deterioration of important highways, in consequence of their inability to shoulder the additional financial burden of the more improved methods of construction, which they now 200 almost immediately be out of date. Each Order is fully advertised, and suitable notice boards are erected on the roads affected.