MOUNT ROSKILL ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 216, 12 September 1929, Page 6

MOUNT ROSKILL ROADS.

Now that the polling day is over and the proposal for a loan for concrete works has been turned down, allow me to state how some of us disagree with the policy of the present board. The former board (slr. Preston was chairman) stated at a meeting that its policy was to concrete one road at a time. If the present board had carried out that policy probably something would have been done, but now nothing is done, and we have to go on wasting £1500 per year on these two roads, or apology for roads. Moreover, some of us believe that the tram tracks will never be laid on Mount Albert Road, at any rate east of Dominion Road. Mr. Tansley expressed this opinion when he was chairman. Then where is the need of a double strip of concrete? And, again, the Royal Oak end of this road i« already permanently sealed the full width and for some distance into the district. Why, then, the double line of concrete? I maintain this road should be treated the same as Balmoral Road, which is almost parallel—that is, one centre strip of concrete and the sides bitumenised. If this were done a great saving, could be effected. A RATEPAYER.