METALLING NORTHERN ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 11, 14 January 1929, Page 8

METALLING NORTHERN ROADS.

PROGRESS AT WAEPOUA. WORK OX BRANCH RAILWAY. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.. DARGAVILLE, this day. The metalling, with the first course of metal, ou the Waipoua Forest Road having been practically completed, the Public Works Department is reorganising the gang? employed. This week the quarry, that was opened up on the banks of the Waipoua stream, will be closed and in future metalling will proceed' from the original quarry situated in the Wairau watershed. About 30 men and sufficient lorries are being retained to deliver about 100 yards of metal per day from this quarry. About 50 men from the Waipoua Forest Road are being transferred next week to Tangowahine, where they will be employed on the construction of the Dargaville branch railway, in addition to those already employed there.

The metal lorries which will not be required in the Waipoua Road will probably all find employment with the Hobson County Council, which on Wednesday will make a start in the raising and widening of the Mititai-Tokatoka river road, for which a free grant of £1500 (portion of £2000) has been authorised, sufficient to make an all-weather sandstone formation for about a mile. It is hoped that the money sufficient to complete the remaining two and a-quar-ter miles will !>e forthcoming and the matter will ne brought before the Main Highway* Hoard when it parses through the district next month. A contract has been let to Messrs. Kail Bro-.. hv the Otamatea County Council which will complete the 71 chains of this deviation which passes through their county from Tokatoka to Naumai,