MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 197, 20 August 1919, Page 5

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Pl EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENT 2 j SCHEME.

(1 J 1,1 NEW MACHINERY XEEIDED. c it Notice lias been given that the Manu- '■ c kau Council intends to raise special >1 loans, amounting in all to £44,000, fur i- very extensive improvements within j ir its boundaries. Of the total sum . ie I £3000 is ear-marked for the erection . p.and completion of bridges and culverts, : jg ! £2000 for bridges anil road works in ' s. I Turanga riding, £HOOO for new I machinery, plant and buildings, and the 1 remaining £30,000 for roadmaking iv i J the Mangere riding. [I I ROADS IN MAN'GERE RIDING. lo ! Mangere riding, situated upon the borts i Her of the town, comes in for a great n- ! ileal of pleasure traflic. It is closely n> ; settled, and under these circumstances n- tar is strongly favoured for the making j r- of roads. The council engineer con- j of tends that, in a riding subject to heavy I it. traffic, tar treatment makes for cheaper I id maintenance, against the "water-bound" | m macadam road. Tar has the advantage [ Id of holding , its surface from (lie disinw tegration which takes place owing to :i>> weather conditions. b o THE WAIROA BR! DOES. j

I Of the £3000 to be expended on the bridges in the AVairoa riding, the creamery bridge and the approaches thereto on the Olevedon-Panakuru road are to have £223 expended, while the pari.sh lino bridge will have £200 for its portion. There are a great number 'of smaller repairs to lie done. The Turanpa ridinsr bridges to he eretieil 1 and renovated are fewer in number, j and call for slightly larper sums. The ■ homestead bridge 'on the Whitford- ; Brookby road ia allotted £S9.">, wliile the cemetery bridge on the same road will call for an expenditure of .CfioO. UP-TO-DATE MACHINERY. ] The rpecia.l loan of £9.000 for the pur- . chase of new machinery and plant i* pro- . liably the most important item of Hie new si-heme. Tt will, if carried, mini- . m-ise to a "treat extent the <liftioulties of the other work*. The engineer stated that the t>ld machinery is obsolete, and a creat deal depemlt* upon the effloieney of it in makinir new works as .successful and inexpensive as possible. The maclihiery which it is proposal to buy will I enable the splendid metalling quarries that tlie eoum-il pos«tv.-es u> be worked successfully. Anions the articles underlined for pur- ■ chase witli this loan money is a motor road roller and scarifier, two four-yard 1 !„_„;„_- ~ t .... ,.i.,v ~ ,• ~*«-•. mn>«

I lorriiv. a motor Inietor, a rotary screen,' ■hoppers, ami elevators. Older the |>rc-| sent system, >the team employed, by the. council for gradinsr has actually cost more { than would pay tiie interest <v tlie loan of £0,000. An estimate shows that thej rest of running ei-rht teams 011 an eifrhtj or nine-mile lead would cost about .ClOj ;>er diem, or move than i." 3.001) for a I I term of cijrlit months, whereas one lorry! lof tho type thnt it. is proponed (o bnv is l capable of (loinf? the work of thfwe e!^l>t teanie at C 4 per diem, or riome £700 for n ; similar «pa<*e (if time. I 1 Kxppriin<"nt« liavo proved tliat a motor i roller i* eapa'ole of doing better work J than <-:in hr done with the old style of I roller. Any road thai U laid >lown withI out a roller, even assuming that it wte with an ewn niirfaco, lia? not half tiiei life of a rollor-ma-dp road: in addition to tliis. a- worn-out road ewn alw-ays be scarified, and with n few yards of motai , Ito tiie chain can bo properly renovated. !

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