TIMARU TRACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 249, 2 August 1946, Page 4

TIMARU TRACK

SETTLEMENT FOR DAMAGE When the report of the Finance Committee came before the South Canterbury Catchment , Board in Timaru this week, suggesting that the board should offer the Ashburton County Council the sum of, £4O in full settlement for damage done to the Timaru track in the Ash-burton-Hinds, drainage scheme and that the council be asked to do the work, My S. P. Taylor, of Ashburton, said he did not think that the Ashburton County Council would regard the offer as satisfactory. The Ashburtoin County Council drew the board’s attention to the condition of the track as the result of the board's operations, and offered £3O as the county’s share of restoring it. Mr Taylor said that a large bank of debris had been heaped up, on one side of the road, and farmers fronting that side of the road were finding it difficult to get out of their farms. He suggested the bank should be spread over the surface of the road and the road re-shingled. The chairman (Mr P. R. Woodhouse) said the work proposed would provide a better road. The engineer (Mr G. R. Milward) said it would not be possible, in view of the had weather, the shade on the track, and the frosts, to do very much for the next two months.

» “It wouldly- hardly be fair,” said the engineer, “to ask the board to spend too much on restoration: work.” The hoard approved the committee’s report proposing that the Ashburton County Council, he asked to restore the surface and that the board contribute £4O.