GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 300, 19 December 1930, Page 16

GREAT SOUTH ROAD.

PAPAKURA TO MERCER STRETCH.

ENGINEERS' CONFERENCE.

. Following the visit. to Pukekohe .of the Main Highways Board to discuss the surfacing of the Franklin county portion of the Great South Road from Pa-pakura to Mercer, officers of the Main Highways Board and the county engineer , have conferred. lleportip" *"• the Franklin' County Council yesterday, Mr, J. F. McArthur said the proposal put forward now by the board, to cost £103,000, provided for a concrete road with necessary bridges between Papakura and intersection with the Drury-Waiuku main highway, a distance of 121 chains. His original proposals, including alignment and other. details, at an estimated cost of £37,083, were accepted for this section. From the turn-off at Drury.to the Bombay Hills deviation, a distance of nearly five miles, the board's estimate provided for a penetrated bituminous road without alteration to alignment of the present road with the exception of Wright's deviation; also it was proposed to make uee of the present road eur-, face, for a foundation. No provision was made for reconstruction of a bridge north of the railway overhead bridge at Pokeno. A detailed report would be avilable for the January meeting, containing definite proposals for the section, Drury to Mercer.