PAPAROA NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1922, Page 8

PAPAROA NEWS.

The 'Public Works Department has recently offered a grant for the Huarau Station Road of £2.10 (£1 for £1). with £200 i free money for maintenance purposes. The j Otamatea County Council resolved that tbe ' Psparoa Rifling resolved that the Paparna j Riding should involve itself In bank overdraft in order to raise the £250 required to I lift the grant. Cγ. Sutherland opposed tho ! motion. A recent meeting of ratepayers re- i solved: "That this meeting stronaly '. objects to being compelled to bear the whole cost of construction of the road from I Huarau, se they consider the cost should he j borne by the whole of the rldlnes west of I the railway, awl we endorse Cγ. Suther- ! land's action at the last meeting of the | council In opposing the proposals of the '• ' council relative to thte roail." The conten- i tion of the ratepayers is that heavy trnnle from nil districts westward to the Wairoa River flows over tblfl road to the railhead, ' and tbe western ridings should assist in maintenance. The Otamatea County ; Council has resolved that the Paparoa Kid- j ' ing must take a bank overdraft to raise) £250, to lift a erant of eqnal amount t£l for £1). with £200 free money added offered by the Government for tnle. road.