WANT SPEEDING UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 114, 17 May 1927, Page 8

WANT SPEEDING UP.

HIGHWAYS BOARD'S ii* PAYMENTS. GREAT SOUTH ROAD '--J RECONSTRUCTION. Tue Manukau County Council and ti*. Higaways Board, under an are to contribute fifty-fifty of the completing the reconstruction of twdr sections of Great South Road, bat wMk i the County Council has expended the whole of its share of the cost the Highways Board is rather slow in forward* J ing its contributions. This was eofflmented upon at the meeting of tlw County Council this morning, Mr. F. 3l> - Waters presiding. "We an; not hurt yet. but it will a struggle to meet next month's p*7* i 1 ments, and we could not go beyond tlit" unless the Highway? Board authorise! *_ further amounts," said Mr. J. R. Page, engineer to the council, in reporting upon the progress being made towards- , the completion of the reconstruction of two remaining sections on the Great South Road. Mr. Page added that, in s application, the Highways Board Bad. authorised £->000 of its quota of tb® - - cost, making £9000 to date, but farther ; authorisations by the board were neces* ._ sary if financial difficulty was to b#.. avoided. The Highway's Board required, as soon as possible, detailed _ data with reference to those roads being ; recommended as highwavs by the K®" trict Council. This involved "a considff*. | able amount of work, and, if possibly it would be done durirsr next month. . The chairinaa of the County Council said that, while the council had pa*l thcwhole of its .quota, the Highway*. Board' was not making its authorisations quick enough to meet contrtti payments. Several members commented upon delay, and it was decided to sendr-J-;" 1 * telegram asking the Highways BotlA to authorise and forward immediately further quotas of its sliare of the cost ri of completing the work. - "J